Country V is classified as a low-income country on the basis of its gross national income (GNI) per capita (measured by the World Bank Atlas method), and as a low human development country based on the human development index (HDI). Indeed, of the 188 countries in the world for which the HDI is produced, Country V is ranked at 187. Almost half of the population live below the UNDP international absolute poverty line.
Agriculture is a mainstay of this large landlocked economy, but it is subject to periodic droughts, floods, locust infestations and the encroachment of the desert. The country’s main export (uranium) has been prone to price fluctuations.
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