Least Developed Country Category: South Sudan Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

South Sudan Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 2012

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 2012
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/2012/32
GA resolution: A/RES/67/136

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 395

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

19.3

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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: 98.8 stat Value: 10.5
Index: 46.2 Index: 0.5
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 27.9 stat Value: 34.5
Index: 49.2 Index: 12.7
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 1,223 stat Value: 0.4
Index: 0.0 Index: 7.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

54.5

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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: 4.1 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 5.2 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 64.2 stat Value: 64.2
Index: 67.7 Index: 64.2
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 10.2 stat Value: 8.1
Index: 100.0 Index: 35.6
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 34.3 stat Value: 11.00
Index: 68.6 Index: 94.6
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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