Least Developed Country Category: Benin Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Benin 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:

$ 1,181

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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:

49.4

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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: 90.3 stat Value: 59.0
Index: 51.3 Index: 54.5
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 31.9 stat Value: 42.4
Index: 41.1 Index: 23.1
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 397 stat Value: 0.76
Index: 67.2 Index: 59.3
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

33.0

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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: 30.4 stat Value: 7.3
Index: 49.8 Index: 20.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 47.3 stat Value: 11.5
Index: 46.6 Index: 11.5
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.36 stat Value: 6.7
Index: 30.1 Index: 28.2
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 6.5 stat Value: 0.67
Index: 13.0 Index: 64.3
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT

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