Least Developed Country Category: Rwanda Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Rwanda Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: Met the criteria for the first time in 2024

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1971
GA resolution: A/RES/2768(XXVI)

Graduation

CDP report: 2024

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 843

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

66.8

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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: 38.0 stat Value: 33.1
Index: 83.0 Index: 25.6
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 29.8 stat Value: 75.9
Index: 45.4 Index: 67.9
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 259 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 78.8 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

28.2

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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: 27.3 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 44.6 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 70.2 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 75.2 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.4 stat Value: 7.4
Index: 56.2 Index: 31.7
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 6.1 stat Value: 0.07
Index: 12.2 Index: 5.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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