Least Developed Country Category: Myanmar Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Myanmar Country Profile in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1987

Graduation: Met the criteria at least two consecutive times, but deferred by CDP to 2027

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1987
ECOSOC resolution: E/1987/163
GA resolution: A/DEC/42/428

Graduation

CDP reports: 1997, 2018, 2021
Graduation assessment: 2021
Impact assessment: 2021
Vulnerability profile: 2021
Country statements: 2021 CDP EGM statement, 2021 CDP Plenary statement

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,381

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

76.3

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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: 40.8 stat Value: 53.4
Index: 81.8 Index: 48.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 24.1 stat Value: 89.1
Index: 56.8 Index: 85.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 179 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 85.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

30.2

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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: 22.3 stat Value: 6.8
Index: 36.1 Index: 19.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 40.3 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 37.9 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 6.3 stat Value: 5.5
Index: 37.9 Index: 21.4
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 7.5 stat Value: 3.40
Index: 15.1 Index: 74.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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