Least Developed Country Category: Niger Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

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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:

$ 589

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

25.5

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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: 117.3 stat Value: 34.0
Index: 34.9 Index: 26.7
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 47.4 stat Value: 38.1
Index: 10.2 Index: 17.5
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 441 stat Value: 0.4
Index: 63.5 Index: 0.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

54.2

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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: 39.5 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 65.3 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 55.4 stat Value: 98.2
Index: 56.8 Index: 98.2
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 9.2 stat Value: 6.6
Index: 85.8 Index: 27.4
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 3.5 stat Value: 10.17
Index:7.1 Index: 93.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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