Least Developed Country Category: Maldives Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Maldives Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: 2011

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

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

Graduation

CDP reports: 1997, 2000, 20022003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1997/223, E/RES/1999/290, E/RES/2000/34, E/RES/2001/43, E/RES/2002/36, E/RES/2003/281, E/RES/2004/3
GA resolutions: A/RES/59/210, A/RES/60/33
Vulnerability profile: 2003
Monitoring reports: 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 9,189

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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:

89.4

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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: 7.6 stat Value: 81.3
Index: 100.0 Index: 79.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 14.6 stat Value: 97.7
Index: 75.8 Index: 97.0
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 53 stat Value: 0.93
Index: 96.0 Index: 88.4
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

42.7

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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: 6.1 stat Value: 100.0
Index: 8.6 Index: 100.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 52.8 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 53.5 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.56 stat Value: 8.5
Index: 53.9 Index: 37.9
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 13.9 stat Value: 0.48
Index: 27.8 Index: 60.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT