Least Developed Country Category: Vanuatu Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Vanuatu Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1985

Graduation: 2020

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1985
GA resolution: A/RES/40/233

Graduation

CDP reports: 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1997/223, E/RES/1998/39, E/RES/2012/32
GA resolutions: A/RES/52/210, E/RES/68/18, A/RES/70/78, A/RES/75/128
Impact assessments: 2009, 2012
Vulnerability profiles: 2009, 2012
Country statements: 2009 CDP Plenary statement, 2012 CDP EGM statement
Monitoring reports: 2014, 2015, 20162017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Country reports: 2017

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 3,420

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

75.8

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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: 18.2 stat Value: 45.7
Index: 95.0 Index: 39.7
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: The Pacific Community, Pacific Data Hub
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 31.4 stat Value: 89.1
Index: 42.2 Index: 85.5
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 94 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 92.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: The Pacific Community, Pacific Data Hub

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

46.0

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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: 23.8 stat Value: 10.1
Index: 38.7 Index: 28.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 81.4 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 89.2 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.9 stat Value: 6.6
Index: 64.2 Index: 27.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 18.2 stat Value: 5.90
Index: 36.3 Index: 83.6
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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