Timor-Leste

Capital City:

Dili

Languages:

Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian and English

Category: Social
Indicator	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Net enrollment ratio in primary education			68.099999999999994		63				MDG Database
Seats held by women in national parliament, percentage	26.1	26.1	25.3	25.3	25.3	29.2	29.2	29.2	UN Stats (MDGs indicators)
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)									World Bank

Category: Land
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Source
Agricultural land (1000 Ha)	337	362	362	365	385	385	385	375	375	FAO
Forest area (sq km)	8,540	8,428	8,316	8,204	8,092	7,980	7,868	7,756		World Bank
Forest area (% of land area)	57.43	56.68	55.92	55.17	54.42	53.67	52.91	52.16		World Bank

Category: Demographics
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Source
Country population	815,310	834,521	866,655	907,539	950,750	991,601	1,028,910	1,064,140	1,098,390	1,133,590	World Bank
Population annual growth	0.490216	2.32895	3.77831	4.60956	4.65146	4.20697	3.69345	3.36679	3.16739	3.15513	World Bank
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)	520					420			370		World Bank

Category: Indices
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
HDI - Human Development Index						0.428	0.445	0.471	0.492	0.497	0.502	UNDP International Human Development Indicators - Calculated based on data from UNDESA (2009d), Barro and Lee (2010), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2010b), World Bank (2010b) and IMF(2010a).

Category: Economy
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $)	790	690	700	690	990	1,490	1,990	3,130	4,730			World Bank
ODA received as % of GNI	71.56	69.22	74.76000000000001	56.3	35.8	26.59	21.51	16.1	9.52			UN Stats (MDGs indicators)

Category: Energy
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Electric power consumption (kWh)												World Bank
Combustible renewables and waste (metric tons of oil equivalent)												World Bank
Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total)												World Bank

Category: Climate Change and Sea-level Rise
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC)			161	161	176	176	180	183				MDG Database (CDIAC Data)

Category: Freshwater
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Improved water source (% of population with access)	52					63			69			World Bank

Category: Biodiversity
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected	3.11	3.11	3.11	3.11	3.11	3.11	3.11	6.36	6.36	6.36		UN Stats (MDGs indicators)

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Country Strategies:

Title	Programme Name	Programme Description	Year
Disaster management Strategy - Timor-Leste	National Disaster Risk Management Plan	Strategy Description	2005
PRSP - Timor-Leste	Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—National Development Plan, Road Map for Implementation of National Development Plan, Overview of Sector Investment Programs—Strategies and Priorities for the Medium Term	Strategy Description	2005
NBSAP - Timor-Leste	National Biodiversty Strategy and Action Plan and Related Biodiversity Enabling Activities in Timor-Leste (PIMS 4083)	Strategy Description	2008
NSDS - Timor-Leste		Strategy Description National Information / National Reports

SPREP Issues First Fact Sheet on Building MEA Capacity in PICs

Date: 24 Jan 2012 | Source: SIDS Policy and Practice

January 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has issued the first fact sheet in a series titled “Building MEA Capacity for Pacific Island Countries.” The document is part of an EU project on “Capacity Building Related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries”. The fact sheet describes pre-Conference of the Parties (COP) trainings conducted by SPREP for Pacific Island Countries (PICs)...

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UNDP Calls for "Energy Plus" Approach to Reduce Poverty in Asia and the Pacific

Date: 23 Jan 2012 | Source: SIDS Policy and Practice

19 January 2012: A report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) calls for an “energy plus” approach to sustainably reduce poverty by combining access to modern energy for heating, cooking and electricity with measures for income generation and improvement of health and education services.The report, “Towards an ‘Energy Plus’ Approach for the Poor,” is based of a review of 17 energy access projects implemented by governments, development agencies and the private sector in Asia-Pacific between...

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UNDP Project Builds Capacity of Climate Policy Advisors in LDCs

Date: 10 Dec 2011 | Source: SIDS Policy and Practice

March 2011: The Executive Board of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has recently approved a strategic initiative to address the weak institutional capacities within Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to tackle climate change, known as “Boots on the Ground.” Through this initiative, UNDP has recruited and trained 26 national climate change policy advisors and four regional experts to support this work in Southern Africa, Western Africa, Arab States and Asia-Pacific. National...

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