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Kiribati graduation status

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) recommended Kiribati for graduation in 2018. ECOSOC deferred its consideration of that recommendation to a later date.

Next step: for Kiribati to graduate, ECOSOC must endorse the CDP's recommendation.  

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

Kiribati LDC Profile (CDP website) (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, Kiribati's performance against the graduation criteria, ex ante assessments on the impacts of graduation, vulnerability profiles, country statements to the CDP)

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Documents on Kiribati

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

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

This paper outlines the recent development trajectory of Kiribati in relation to the least developed country (LDC) categorisation and the prospect of Kiribati’s graduation out of LDC status.

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 09 April 2019

Photo UN/Eskinder Debebe

Countries approaching graduation and already graduated