São Tomé and Príncipe graduated on 13 December 2024 (see the General Assembly resolution here).

CDP monitoring report, 2025
Evaluation Report of the Graduation Process of São Tomé and Príncipe from the List of LDCs
São Tomé and Príncipe's graduated country fact sheet (CDP website) (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, São Tomé and Príncipe's performance against the graduation criteria, ex ante assessment of the impacts of graduation, vulnerability profile, country statement to the CDP and CDP monitoring reports).

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Textiles and clothing in Asian graduating LDCs - Challenges and options. EIF, ITC, UNDESA, UNCTAD, WTO The textile and clothing sector in five Asian least developed countries (LDCs) — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Nepal — makes heavy use of trade preferences for LDCs and is one of the main sectors likely to be impacted by graduation from the category.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	01 Febrero 2022
What Drives Safeguarding for China's Hydropower Projects in LDCs? IIED China has a leading role in building large hydropower dams in developing nations, partly in the name of sustainable development.	Climate change and energy	31 Enero 2022
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Bringing the voice of the Least Developed Countries into the G20 policy agenda (UNCTAD) This report is divided into four sections. Chapter 1 addresses the role of African countries within the G20 decision making processes.		25 Enero 2022
Boosting trade opportunities for least-developed countries: progress over the past ten years and current priorities - WTO Over the past decade, important progress has been made in supporting the integration of least-developed countries (LDCs) into the multilateral trading system.	Trade	20 Enero 2022
Manuel relatif à la catégorie des pays les moins avancés, 2021 - CPD La quatrième édition du Manuel sur la catégorie des pays les moins avancés apporte des informations exhaustives sur la catégorie des pays les moins avancés (PMA), notamment une description des procédures et méthodologies qui ont servi à identifier ces pays et des mesures de soutien international do	LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures	17 Enero 2022
Vulnerability Profile of Lao People’s Democratic Republic This report presents the vulnerability profile (VP) of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, as mandated by General Assembly resolution 59/209 of 20 December 2004.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	17 Enero 2022
Vulnerability profile of Bangladesh - UNCTAD This publication was prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in anticipation of the 2021 review by the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations of the list of least developed countries. Published January 2022.	Vulnerability	17 Enero 2022
Vulnerability Profile of Myanmar This report presents the vulnerability profile of Myanmar, as mandated in General Assembly resolution 59/209 of 20 December 2004, which stated that “after a country has fulfilled the criteria for graduation for the first time, UNCTAD is mandated to prepare a vulnerability profile on the identified c	LDC graduation and smooth transition	17 Enero 2022
Podcast: How trade finance can support LDCs' economic recovery - Building capacity through collaboration, ICC academy Annette Ssemuwemba, EIF's Deputy Executive Director, and Endris Negus, Monitoring and Evaluation Expert at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ethiopia talk about how trade finance can support LDCs' economic recovery and safeguard the livelihoods of millions of workers, with host Priyanka	Trade	16 Enero 2022
Technology is the key to transforming least developed countries. Here's how. Tesfachew and Adhikari for World Economic Forum Limited use of technology is inhibiting LDCs' path towards structural transformation. These countries can implement measures in several areas to build their technological capacity. Innovative approaches to resource mobilization should be explored to fund such transition. Structural transfo	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	13 Enero 2022
Least Developed Country graduation: Past, present and future. Jose Antonio Ocampo for OECD Development Matters As the world prepares for the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), we need to ask not only whether this category is still relevant today but also what graduation from this status implies.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	07 Enero 2022
Nepal's elusive quest for export success meets LDC graduation - Paras Kharel for SAWTEE Nepal is hurtling towards graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category with a low per capita income and meagre exports. This paper analyses the implications of graduation for Nepal's exports, and suggests measures that Nepal government should take to mitigate the adverse effects.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	31 Diciembre 2021
Report on Cooperation between the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the LDCs - Implementation of the WIPO Deliverables for the decade 2011-2020, Executive Summary The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been actively engaged with least developed countries (LDCs) to contribute to their efforts towards implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020 (IPoA). The Organization has been		31 Diciembre 2021
Arab LDCs: Development Challenges and Opportunities (ESCWA) Four member States of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) are classified as LDCs: Mauritania, Somalia, the Sudan and Yemen.		31 Diciembre 2021
LDC Sustainable Graduation Support Facility - Note December 2021 The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in its 2019 plenary recommended that capacity development work be undertaken in support of graduating and graduated countries and requested its secretariat, as part of its capacity development activities and in close collaboration with other relevant Uni	LDC graduation and smooth transition	15 Diciembre 2021
WIPO deliverables for the least developed countries for 2022-2031 - International Bureau of WIPO The present document contains the “WIPO Deliverables for the Least Developed Countries for 2022-2031”, which was formally adopted by the LDC Member States at the Pre-Conference Forum, after having considered and discussed the draft proposal, developed by the WIPO Secretariat for their consideration.		13 Diciembre 2021