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Least Developed Country Category: Botswana Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Botswana Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: 1994

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report:
GA resolution:

Graduation

CDP reports: ,
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1991/275, E/RES/1994/225
GA resolutions: ,

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 6,882

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

83.5

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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: 38.7 stat Value: 90.3
Index: 82.6 Index: 89.2
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: CDP
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 21.6 stat Value: 86.8
Index: 61.8 Index: 82.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 186 stat Value: 1.0
Index: 84.9 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: CDP

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

40.9

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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: 2.0 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 1.7 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 86.7 stat Value: 100.0
Index: 95.8 Index: 100.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 8.4 stat Value: 6.7
Index: 73.7 Index: 27.9
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 11.8 stat Value: 0.06
Index: 23.7 Index: 4.4
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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