Least Developed Country Category: Myanmar Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Myanmar Country Profile in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1987

Graduation: Met the criteria two consecutive times, but deferred by CDP

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1987
ECOSOC resolution: E/1987/163
GA resolution: A/DEC/42/428

Graduation

CDP reports: 1997, 2018, 2021
Graduation assessment: 2021
Impact assessment: 2021
Vulnerability profile: 2021
Country statements: 2021 CDP EGM statement, 2021 CDP Plenary statement

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,263

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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:

73.9

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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: 44.7 stat Value: 68.4
Index: 79.0 Index: 64.9
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 26.1 stat Value: 75.6
Index: 52.9 Index: 67.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 250 stat Value: 1.09
Index: 79.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

24.3

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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: 22.5 stat Value: 6.8
Index: 36.4 Index: 19.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 41.3 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 39.1 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.23 stat Value: 3.1
Index: 15.3 Index: 8.8
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 5.6 stat Value: 0.64
Index: 11.2 Index: 63.8
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT