Least Developed Country Category: Guinea-Bissau Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Guinea-Bissau Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1981

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP reports: 1978, 1981
ECOSOC resolutions: E/DEC/1980/161, E/RES/1981/34
GA resolution: A/RES/35/106

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 735

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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:

44.0

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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: 78.5 stat Value: 44.8
Index: 58.5 Index: 38.7
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: CDP
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 28.4 stat Value: 45.6
Index: 48.2 Index: 27.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 667 stat Value: 0.68
Index: 44.6 Index: 46.7
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: CDP

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

41.0

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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: 51.0 stat Value: 4.5
Index: 84.7 Index: 13.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 47.5 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 46.8 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.88 stat Value: 3.2
Index: 91.2 Index: 9.2
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 8.8 stat Value: 0.74
Index: 17.7 Index: 65.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT