Gabon
65 figures for Gabon, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Gabon compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $8,263 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $22,218 (2025)
- Economic growth +2.5% (2025)
- Unemployment 20.2% (2025)
- Inflation +1.2% (2024)
- Exports 64.6% (2024)
- Income per person $18,845 (2023)
- Household wealth 64.2 (2012)
- Poorer households 22.7% (2012)
- Wealth inequality 0.20 (2012)
- Women in paid work 42.0% (2012)
People
- Population 2.48 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.11% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.59 (2024)
- Typical age 21.5 (2023)
- Living in cities 92.1% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.733 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.994 (2023)
- People per household 6.6 (2012)
- People over 65 3.9% (2012)
- Children under 15 39.4% (2012)
- Women’s age at first marriage 20.7 (2012)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.0 (2012)
Health
- Life expectancy 68.3 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 32.6 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 233 (2023)
- Health spending per person $253 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 57% (2024)
- Overweight adults 46.9% (2022)
- Stunted children 16.6% (2012)
- Overweight children 8.8% (2012)
- Homes with piped water 65.0% (2012)
- Homes with a flush toilet 33.2% (2012)
Education
- Years of schooling 9.7 (2023)
- Expected years in school 12.5 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 70.3% (2019)
- Education spending 2.2% (2022)
- Teens in school 86.8% (2012)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 2.13 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 5.4 million (2024)
- Forest cover 91.2% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 32.2 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 91.3% (2021)
- Average temperature 25.0 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 2,042 (2023)
- Access to electricity 95.1% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 35.4% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 12.0% (2015)
Technology
- Internet users 68.7% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 123.2 (2022)
- Home broadband 3.3 (2022)
- Homes with internet 8.5% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 92.1% (2012)
Food and farming
- Hunger 25.3% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,588 (2023)
- Farmland 8.4% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 28.9% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.30 (2025)
- Human rights 0.79 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.78 (2025)
- Women in parliament 21.6% (2025)
- Military spending 1.5% (2024)
- Clean government 38.1 (2022)