Timor-Leste (facts and figures)

Timor-Leste | East Timor
Official Tourism & Travel Guide

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Statistics Timor-Leste / Census Timor-Leste

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts - to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.

Timor-Leste gained independence in May 2002 and remains one of the poorest countries in the world in terms of human development.
Around 42 per cent of the population lives below the national poverty line ($0.55 per day). Timor-Leste faces a combination of sluggish growth, rising inequality, and a rapidly expanding population, indicating that the poverty headcount may be expected to increase.
Investments in infrastructure, social services and programmes to revive economic growth have remained stagnant since independence, resulting in marginal improvements in general living conditions and livelihood opportunities. A key limitation to nation-building activities is a very low human resources skill base. Only 50 per cent of adults are literate, while less than one-third of adults have some secondary education.
Some 80 per cent of the population is rural and over 80 per cent relies on agriculture as the primary means of livelihood. Twenty per cent of the population is currently food insecure, and an additional 24 per cent are vulnerable to food insecurity.

Includes: Participation in education, Progression and completion in education, Resources for education, Literacy rates.

In Timor-Leste, UNDP works closely with the UN Country Team, international financial institutions as well as bilateral and multilateral agencies within the framework of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste established by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1704, of 2006, which underpins the “One UN approach.”

As of January 2012, Bank cumulative lending (IBRD and IDA) to Timor-Leste was over $48.62 million for 9 active projects

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