Least Developed Country Category: Guinea Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Guinea Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1971
GA resolution: A/RES/2768(XXVI)

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 870

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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:

39.8

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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: 98.8 stat Value: 40.0
Index: 46.2 Index: 33.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: Guinea EDS V
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 30.2 stat Value: 32.0
Index: 44.6 Index: 9.3
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 576 stat Value: 0.72
Index: 52.2 Index: 53.3
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: Guinea EDS V

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

28.8

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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: 23.7 stat Value: 2.3
Index: 38.5 Index: 6.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 49.6 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 49.4 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.50 stat Value: 1.5
Index: 47.3 Index: 0.0
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 19.4 stat Value: 0.22
Index: 38.9 Index: 49.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT