Least Developed Country Category: Mozambique Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Mozambique Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1988

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1988
ECOSOC resolutions: E/DEC/1988/105, E/DEC/1988/153
GA resolution: A/DEC/43/431

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 473

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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:

53.9

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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: 74.2 stat Value: 35.4
Index: 61.1 Index: 28.2
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 38.4 stat Value: 60.7
Index: 28.1 Index: 47.5
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 289 stat Value: 0.89
Index: 76.2 Index: 82.4
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

41.4

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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: 28.2 stat Value: 2.8
Index: 46.0 Index: 8.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 72.3 stat Value: 26.2
Index: 77.9 Index: 26.2
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.30 stat Value: 8.9
Index: 23.6 Index: 39.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 11.6 stat Value: 3.76
Index: 23.1 Index: 87.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT