Least Developed Country Category: Uganda Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Uganda Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: Met the criteria for the first time in 2024

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

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

Graduation

CDP report: 2024

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 909

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

66.3

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 40.5 stat Value: 27.8
Index: 81.5 Index: 19.8
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 23.4 stat Value: 80.6
Index: 58.2 Index: 74.1
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 284 stat Value: 0.9
Index: 76.6 Index: 87.8
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

28.2

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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: 26.5 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 43.2 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 68.6 stat Value: 3.1
Index: 73.2 Index: 3.1
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.3 stat Value: 7.0
Index: 55.1 Index: 29.8
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 5.0 stat Value: 0.10
Index: 10.0 Index: 11.6
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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