Least Developed Country Category: Liberia Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Liberia Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1990

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1982, 1983, 1990
ECOSOC resolutions: E/DEC/1982/106, E/DEC/1990/261
GA resolution: A/DEC/45/437

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 473

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

50.6

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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: 73.2 stat Value: 22.0
Index: 61.7 Index: 13.4
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 26.6 stat Value: 48.3
Index: 51.8 Index: 31.1
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 652 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 45.8 Index:100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

45.9

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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: 74.5 stat Value: 11.7
Index: 100.0 Index: 33.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 51.1 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 51.3 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.9 stat Value: 4.2
Index: 64.7 Index: 14.5
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 25.8 stat Value: 0.94
Index: 51.6 Index: 51.4
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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