Least Developed Country Category: Somalia Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

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LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

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

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 104

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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:

24.3

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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: 117.0 stat Value: 5.9
Index: 35.2 Index: 0.0
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 27.9 stat Value: 40.0
Index: 49.3 Index: 20.0
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UN Population Fund
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 829 stat Value: 0.46
Index: 31.0 Index: 10.1
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

51.9

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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: 60.2 stat Value: 3.5
Index: 100.0 Index: 10.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 54.6 stat Value: 95.8
Index: 55.8 Index: 95.8
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.48 stat Value: 3.6
Index: 44.2 Index: 11.6
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 0.03 stat Value: 8.30
Index: 0.1 Index: 97.6
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT