Gambia
65 figures for Gambia, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Gambia compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $919 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $3,706 (2025)
- Economic growth +5.9% (2025)
- Unemployment 6.5% (2025)
- Inflation +11.6% (2024)
- Exports 8.7% (2024)
- Income per person $2,813 (2023)
- Household wealth 60.5 (2018)
- Poorer households 38.2% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.22 (2018)
- Women in paid work 43.8% (2017)
People
- Population 2.7 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.23% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.91 (2024)
- Typical age 18.2 (2023)
- Living in cities 65.0% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.524 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.959 (2023)
- People per household 8.0 (2018)
- People over 65 3.6% (2018)
- Children under 15 45.0% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.7 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.4 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 65.9 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 42.4 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 354 (2023)
- Health spending per person $26 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 83% (2024)
- Overweight adults 40.9% (2022)
- Stunted children 18.9% (2018)
- Overweight children 1.6% (2018)
- Homes with piped water 46.1% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 30.0% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 4.7 (2023)
- Expected years in school 9.0 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 107.0% (2021)
- Education spending 2.9% (2022)
- Teens in school 83.1% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.291 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 802,774 (2024)
- Forest cover 22.3% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 35.7 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 48.6% (2021)
- Average temperature 27.6 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 75 (2007)
- Access to electricity 69.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 99.8% (2018)
Technology
- Internet users 49.5% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 106.8 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.2 (2022)
- Homes with internet 75.1% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 97.3% (2018)
Food and farming
- Hunger 16.8% (2023)
- Cereal yield 801 (2023)
- Farmland 62.6% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 27.6% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.64 (2025)
- Human rights 0.88 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.51 (2025)
- Women in parliament 8.6% (2025)
- Military spending 0.6% (2024)
- Clean government 54.2 (2022)