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Myanmar graduation status

Myanmar met the in 2018, 2021 and 2024. The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has deferred its decision on a recommendation to 2027.

See the CDP's 2024 report .

Next step: the CDP will assess Myanmar again in 2027. 

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

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

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Report on the 26th session of the Committee for Development Policy (4-8 March 2024) The present report contains the main findings and recommendations of the Committee for Development Policy at its twenty-sixth session.

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 08 May 2024

Textiles and clothing in Asian graduating LDCs - Challenges and options. EIF, ITC, UNDESA, UNCTAD, WTO

The textile and clothing sector in five Asian least developed countries (LDCs) — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Nepal — makes heavy use of trade preferences for LDCs and is one of the main sectors likely to be impacted by graduation from the category.

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 01 February 2022

This report presents the vulnerability profile of Myanmar, as mandated in General Assembly resolution 59/209 of 20 December 2004, which stated that “after a country has fulfilled the criteria for graduation for the first time, UNCTAD is mandated to prepare a vulnerability profile on the identified c

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 17 January 2022

This paper has four objectives.

 Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation 12 April 2021

The impact of COVID-19 on South-East Asia

30 July 2020.

 COVID-19 30 July 2020

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

Cross-border e-commerce can help least developed countries (LDCs) to become more competitive and diversify their exports – and this is especially true for Asia-Pacific, the most dynamic region in global e-commerce.

 Trade 13 April 2018

Photo Marcia Tavares

Countries approaching graduation and already graduated