Least Developed Country Category: Zambia Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Zambia Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1991

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP reports: 1987, 1988, 1991
ECOSOC resolution: E/DEC/1987/109
GA resolution: A/RES/46/206

Graduation

CDP report: 2021, 2024

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 1,113

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

71.4

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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: 55.6 stat Value: 47.2
Index: 72.4 Index: 41.3
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 31.4 stat Value: 87.5
Index: 42.2 Index: 83.3
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 135 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 89.1 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

39.8

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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: 3.3 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 3.9 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 80.8 stat Value: 46.6
Index: 88.5 Index: 46.6
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.8 stat Value: 7.9
Index: 63.5 Index: 34.5
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 10.3 stat Value: 1.64
Index: 20.6 Index: 61.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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