Least Developed Country Category: Gambia Profile 2021

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Gambia Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1975

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1975
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/1976(LIX)
GA resolution: A/RES/3487(XXX)

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 711

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,018
Graduation: $ 1,222
Income-only graduation: $ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

63.8

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
stat Value: 51.7 stat Value: 57.0
Index: 74.7 Index: 52.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: CDP
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 16.9 stat Value: 50.8
Index: 71.3 Index: 34.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 597 stat Value: 1.14
Index: 50.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: CDP

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

51.3

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 22.2 stat Value: 4.3
Index: 35.9 Index: 12.3
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 46.3 stat Value: 100.0
Index: 45.3 Index: 100.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.47 stat Value: 12.9
Index: 43.6 Index: 61.9
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 17.9 stat Value: 1.52
Index: 35.9 Index: 75.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT