Least Developed Country Category: Cambodia Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Cambodia Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1991

Graduation: Recommended for graduation by CDP, ECOSOC and GA decisions forthcoming

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1991
GA resolution: A/RES/46/206

Graduation

CDP reports: 2021, 2024
Impact assessment: 2024
Vulnerability profile: 2024
Country statements: 2024 CDP EGM statement, 2024 CDP Plenary statement

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,590

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

77.8

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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: 23.7 stat Value: 58.6
Index: 91.7 Index: 54.0
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 22.3 stat Value: 83.8
Index: 60.4 Index: 78.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 218 stat Value: 1.2
Index: 82.2 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

24.1

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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: 24.1 stat Value: 2.0
Index: 39.1 Index: 5.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 43.8 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 42.2 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 6.0 stat Value: 6.6
Index: 33.0 Index: 27.8
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 10.2 stat Value: 0.21
Index: 20.5 Index: 24.6
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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