Least Developed Country Category: Sudan 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:

$ 619

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

62.0

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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: 51.6 stat Value: 47.3
Index: 74.8 Index: 41.5
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 36.0 stat Value: 60.7
Index: 33.0 Index: 47.6
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 270 stat Value: 1.0
Index: 77.8 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

46.4

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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: 20.1 stat Value: 0.5
Index: 32.4 Index: 1.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 38.4 stat Value: 85.4
Index: 35.6 Index: 85.4
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.8 stat Value: 9.7
Index: 63.8 Index: 44.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 9.5 stat Value: 8.16
Index: 19.0 Index: 89.3
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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