Least Developed Country Category: Timor-Leste Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Timor-Leste Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 2003

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 2003
ECOSOC resolution: E/DEC/2003/280
GA resolution: A/RES/58/112

Graduation

CDP reports: 2015, 2018, 2021, 2024
Impact assessment: 2018
Vulnerability profile: 2018
Country statements: 2018 CDP EGM statement, 2021 CDP EGM statement, 2021 CDP Plenary statement, 2024 CDP EGM statement

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 2,314

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

65.6

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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: 48.6 stat Value: 63.0
Index: 76.6 Index: 58.8
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 45.1 stat Value: 69.9
Index: 14.8 Index: 59.9
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 204 stat Value: 1.2
Index: 83.4 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

41.3

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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: 10.7 stat Value: 3.0
Index: 16.4 Index: 8.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 63.7 stat Value: 3.1
Index: 67.1 Index: 3.1
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.6 stat Value: 5.3
Index: 60.6 Index: 20.6
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 57.0 stat Value: 1.08
Index: 100.0 Index: 53.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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