Least Developed Country Category: Sudan Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Sudan Snapshot in PDF

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:

$ 1,582

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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:

61.9

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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: 58.4 stat Value: 46.6
Index: 70.7 Index: 40.7
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 34.1 stat Value: 60.7
Index: 36.9 Index: 47.6
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 295 stat Value: 1.01
Index: 75.7 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

37.9

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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: 21.4 stat Value: 0.5
Index: 34.6 Index: 1.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 38.4 stat Value: 85.4
Index: 35.5 Index: 85.4
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.40 stat Value: 5.8
Index: 35.5 Index: 23.4
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 8.7 stat Value: 1.01
Index: 17.5 Index: 69.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT