Least Developed Country Category: Liberia Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Liberia Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1990

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1982, 1983, 1990
ECOSOC resolutions: E/DEC/1982/106, E/DEC/1990/261
GA resolution: A/DEC/45/437

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 507

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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:

45.2

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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: 84.6 stat Value: 37.9
Index: 54.8 Index: 31.0
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 28.8 stat Value: 48.3
Index: 47.4 Index: 31.1
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 661 stat Value: 0.77
Index: 45.1 Index: 61.6
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

40.2

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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: 73.4 stat Value: 11.7
Index: 100.0 Index: 33.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 50.9 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 51.1 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.43 stat Value: 3.6
Index: 39.2 Index: 11.2
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 26.1 stat Value: 0.07
Index: 52.2 Index: 34.3
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT