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Timor-Leste graduation status

Timor-Leste met the graduation criteria in 2015, 2018 and 2021.  The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) deferred its decision on a recommendation to 2024. In 2024, Timor-Leste no longer met the graduation criteria.

See the CDP's 2024 report here.

Next step: when Timor-Leste meets the graduation criteria again, its graduation process will re-start (it will be considered in the same way as a country meeting the criteria for the first time). 

  • More information on the process here.
  • More information on suggested action to prepare for graduation here.

Timor-Leste's LDC Profile (CDP website) (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, Timor-Leste's performance against the graduation criteria, ex ante assessment of the impacts of graduation, vulnerability profile, country statements to CDP in 2018 and 2021)

Other resources:

 

Documents on Timor-Leste

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The road to LDC graduation in Timor-Leste

The Covid-19 crisis hit Timor-Leste harder than many countries. (...) While the country remains an LDC the government should also use existing LDC-specific funds and facilities as fully as possible.

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 30 June 2021

Timor-Leste to Graduate from LDC Category and Beyond through Structural Transformation and Economic Diversification - Helder Lopes for UNESCAP

Since independence in 2002 Timor-Leste has emerged from instability and significant erosion of development gains to successfully graduate from fragility status, meet the least developed country (LDC) graduation per-capita income criterion in 2015 since the country was added to the list of LDC in 200

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 16 April 2021

The impact of COVID-19 on South-East Asia

30 July 2020.

 COVID-19 30 July 2020

Finding new support for Timor-Leste’s graduation from least developed country (LDC) status (UN in Timor-Leste blog post)

Finding new support for Timor-Leste’s graduation from least developed country (LDC) status (UN in Timor-Leste blog post)

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 27 February 2020

Improved assistance measures for graduated and graduating least developed countries for the achievement of agenda 2030 (CDP Policy Review No. 9)

LDC graduation has become an increasingly important issue in the international development agenda. Meeting graduation eligibility is a major goal of the Istanbul Plan of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the decade 201-2020 (IPoA).

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 30 September 2019

Photo UN/Martine Perret