Least Developed Country Category: United Republic of Tanzania Profile | Economic Analysis and Policy Division

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

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LDC status

Inclusion: 1971

Reports and resolutions

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

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

	Value:		$ 1,031
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		$ 1,018
	Graduation:		$ 1,222
	Income-only graduation:		$ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

	Index:		61.1
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		60 or below
	Graduation:		66 or above

	HAI indicators
	Under-five mortality rate			Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
		Value:	50.3		Value:	32.0
		Index:	75.6		Index:	24.5
		Source:	UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation		Source:	UNESCO
	Prevalence of stunting			Adult literacy rate
		Value:	32.8		Value:	77.9
		Index:	39.3		Index:	70.5
		Source:	UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates		Source:	UNESCO
	Maternal Mortality Rate			Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
		Value:	524		Value:	1.08
		Index:	56.6		Index:	100.0
		Source:	UN IAG for Maternal Mortality		Source:	UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

	Index:		34.7
	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
		Value:	30.0		Value:	0.4
		Index:	49.1		Index:	1.1
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	CIESIN
	Remoteness and landlockedness			Share of population living in drylands
		Value:	60.4		Value:	31.7
		Index:	63.0		Index:	31.7
		Source:	CDP		Source:	CDP
	Merchandise export concentration			Instability of agricultural production
		Value:	0.29		Value:	8.1
		Index:	22.6		Index:	35.4
		Source:	UNCTAD		Source:	FAO
	Instability of exports of goods and services			Victims of disasters
		Value:	2.0		Value:	1.10
		Index:	4.0		Index:	70.9
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	EM-DAT