São Tomé and Principe
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Economy
- GDP per person $4,084 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $6,388 (2025)
- Economic growth +1.0% (2025)
- Unemployment 9.1% (2025)
- Inflation +14.4% (2024)
- Exports 15.6% (2024)
- Income per person $5,586 (2023)
- Household wealth 57.1 (2019)
- Poorer households 38.6% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.20 (2019)
- Women in paid work 51.7% (2013)
People
- Population 230,882 (2023)
- Population growth +1.98% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.60 (2024)
- Typical age 19.1 (2023)
- Living in cities 69.2% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.637 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.980 (2023)
- People per household 4.1 (2019)
- People over 65 3.6% (2019)
- Children under 15 42.6% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.5 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.9 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 69.7 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 13.6 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 75 (2023)
- Health spending per person $171 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 87% (2024)
- Overweight adults 42.6% (2022)
- Stunted children 11.8% (2019)
- Overweight children 4.7% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 34.6% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 23.4% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 6.0 (2023)
- Expected years in school 12.9 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 90.4% (2017)
- Education spending 5.2% (2022)
- Teens in school 84.9% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.602 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 141,779 (2024)
- Forest cover 52.1% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 15.6 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 40.8% (2021)
- Average temperature 25.9 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 259 (2007)
- Access to electricity 77.7% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 11.1% (2023)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2023)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2023)
- Cooking with wood or dung 42.8% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 59.1% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 86.8 (2022)
- Home broadband 2.0 (2022)
- Homes with internet 44.4% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 83.8% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 17.4% (2023)
- Cereal yield 2,004 (2023)
- Farmland 44.8% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 12.1% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.63 (2025)
- Human rights 0.89 (2025)
- Control of corruption +0.13 (2025)
- Women in parliament 14.5% (2025)
- Clean government 44.4 (2022)