Least Developed Country Category: Senegal Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Senegal Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 2000

Inclusion: Met the criteria for the first time in 2021

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 2000
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/2000/34
GA resolution: A/RES/55/253

Graduation

CDP report: 2021

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,370

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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:

66.4

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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: 45.3 stat Value: 46.2
Index: 78.6 Index: 40.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 17.8 stat Value: 51.9
Index: 69.5 Index: 35.9
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 315 stat Value: 1.13
Index: 74.1 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

43.0

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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: 16.5 stat Value: 7.0
Index: 26.3 Index: 20.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 45.4 stat Value: 90.6
Index: 44.2 Index: 90.6
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.23 stat Value: 15.0
Index: 15.7 Index: 72.9
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 1.9 stat Value: 1.05
Index: 3.7 Index: 70.4
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT