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10 - 14 January 2011, UN Headquarters
Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

(01/04/2011)


Least Developed Country (LDC) is the name given to a country which, according to theUnited Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowestHuman Development Index ratings of all countries in the world. A country is classified as a Least Developed Country if it meets three criteria:

* low-income (three-year average GNI per capita of less than US $905, which must exceed $1,086 to leave the list)
* human resource weakness (based on indicators of nutrition, health, education and adultliteracy) and
* economic vulnerability (based on instability of agricultural production, instability of exports of goods and services, economic importance of non-traditional activities, merchandise export concentration, handicap of economic smallness, and the percentage of population displaced by natural disasters)

Countries may "graduate" out of the LDC classification when indicators exceed these criteria. The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States coordinates UN support and provides advocacy services for Least Developed Countries.

The classification currently (as of 29 January 2009) applies to 49 countries.











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