The Least Developed Countries Report provides a comprehensive and authoritative source of socioeconomic analysis and data on the world's most impoverished countries.
The Report is intended for a broad readership of governments, policy makers, researchers and all those involved with development policies in the Least Developed Countries.
Each Report contains a statistical annex, which provides basic data on the LDCs.
Publications
Documents
10 Feb 2026
The Least Developed Countries Report 2025: Are services the new path to structural transformation?
04 Nov 2024
The Least Developed Countries Report 2024
Leveraging carbon markets for the development of the least developed countries
[Including corrigendum]07 Nov 2023
The Least Developed Countries Report 2023
Crisis-resilient development finance
UNCTAD/LDC/202303 Nov 2022
The Least Developed Countries Report 2022
The low-carbon transition and its daunting implications for structural transformation
UNCTAD/LDC/202227 Sep 2021
The Least Developed Countries Report 2021
The least developed countries in the post-COVID world: Learning from 50 years of experience
UNCTAD/LDC/202103 Dec 2020
The Least Developed Countries Report 2020
Productive capacities for the new decade
UNCTAD/LDC/202019 Nov 2019
The Least Developed Countries Report 2019
The present and future of external development finance – old dependence, new challenges
UNCTAD/LDC/201920 Nov 2018
The Least Developed Countries Report 2018
Entrepreneurship for structural transformation: Beyond business as usual
UNCTAD/LDC/201822 Nov 2017
The Least Developed Countries Report 2017
Transformational Energy Access
UNCTAD/LDC/2017