Least Developed Country Category: Kiribati Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Kiribati Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1986

Graduation: Recommended for graduation by the CDP; ECOSOC decision deferred to 2024

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP reports: 1985, 1986
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1984/58, E/DEC/1986/153
GA resolution: A/RES/41/186

Graduation

CDP reports: 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/2018/27, E/RES/2021/11
Impact assessment: 2009, 2015, 2018
Vulnerability profile: 2009, 2015, 2015 Note by UNSD, 2018
Country statements: 2015 CDP EGM, 2018 EGM, 2018 CDP Plenary
Country presentation: 2009 CDP EGM, 2015 CDP EGM

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 3,183

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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:

81.5

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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: 50.9 stat Value: 76.3
Index: 75.2 Index: 73.7
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: Kiribati MoE
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 15.3 stat Value: 79.6
Index: 74.5 Index: 72.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: Kiribati MoE
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 92 stat Value: 1.21
Index: 92.7 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: CDP

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

51.7

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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: 27.7 stat Value: 95.2
Index: 45.2 Index: 100.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 76.1 stat Value: 4.6
Index: 82.7 Index: 4.6
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.83 stat Value: 5.3
Index: 85.7 Index: 20.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 19.1 stat Value: 0.08
Index: 38.3 Index: 36.8
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT