Least Developed Country Category: South Sudan Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

South Sudan Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 2012

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 2012
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/2012/32
GA resolution: A/RES/67/136

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 351

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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:

22.0

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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: 96.2 stat Value: 11.0
Index: 47.7 Index: 1.1
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 30.8 stat Value: 34.5
Index: 43.4 Index: 12.7
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 1,150 stat Value: 0.54
Index: 4.2 Index: 22.8
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

54.6

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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: 2.9 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 3.2 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 64.1 stat Value: 64.9
Index: 67.6 Index: 64.9
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.98 stat Value: 3.3
Index: 100.0 Index: 9.9
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 98.0 stat Value: 5.01
Index: 100.0 Index: 90.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT