When a country has met the criteria for graduation for the first time, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) prepares a vulnerability profile of the country as an input to the triennial reviews conducted by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the least developed countries category.The vulnerability profiles are aimed at assisting the qualifying countries to formulate strategies for graduation with momentum to increase their chances of achieving structural, social, and economic progress towards and beyond graduation from the least developed countries (LDCs) category. Angola was found eligible for graduation for the first time in 2012, having met the “income-only” criterion. The country was initially scheduled to graduate in 2018 after having been found eligible for the second time during the 2015 CDP triennial review. However, consecutive years of bad economic performance led to a series of postponements and extensions, including the latest one due to COVID-19.