🇬🇦 Gabon
Gabonese Republic
Every statistic we track for Gabon — 134 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$25,847
67.8 yrs
5.17
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.6 | #40/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #38/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 21.6 | #183/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 1.6 | #151/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 2.4 | #137/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 10.3 | #217/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 984 | #105/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 91.9% | #26/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 95.1% | #153/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 76.1% | #2/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 68.7% | #121/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 123.2 | #73/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 53.4% | #23/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 2.3% | #92/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 10.2 | #64/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 2.1 | #113/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 2,042 | #57/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 53.3 | #44/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 35.4% | #85/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 70.6 | #43/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 65.3% | #6/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.2 | #45/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 4 | #98/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 12.5 | #96/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 25.4% | #35/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 80.5% | #108/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 45.6% | #73/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.6 | #86/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 46.7% | #20/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 11.9% | #33/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 3.7 | #96/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 47.5 | #102/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 6.3 | #74/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 83.1% | #21/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 5.2 | #96/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #101/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.6 | #71/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0 | #132/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #107/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #97/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1 | #110/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #109/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 90.2% | #15/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 73.4% | #10/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 16.3% | #29/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 79.1% | #94/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 62.7% | #121/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 53.9% | #33/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 8.5% | #38/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 63.9% | #15/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.9 | #110/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 56.2% | #126/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 38.8% | #138/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.5 | #106/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 50.2% | #35/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.