Least Developed Country Category: Timor-Leste Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Timor-Leste Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 2003

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

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 2003
ECOSOC resolution: E/DEC/2003/280
GA resolution: A/RES/58/112

Graduation

CDP reports: 2015, 2018, 2021
Impact assessment: 2018
Vulnerability profile: 2018
Country statements: 2018 CDP EGM statement, 2021 CDP EGM statement, 2021 CDP Plenary statement

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,867

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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:

69.5

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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: 44.2 stat Value: 86.5
Index: 79.3 Index: 85.0
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 49.1 stat Value: 68.1
Index: 6.9 Index: 57.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 142 stat Value: 1.10
Index: 88.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

38.7

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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: 16.1 stat Value: 3.0
Index: 25.5 Index: 8.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 64.4 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 68.0 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.54 stat Value: 5.0
Index: 51.7 Index: 19.1
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 37.4 stat Value: 0.57
Index: 74.9 Index: 62.3
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT