🇬🇲 Gambia
Republic of the Gambia
Every statistic we track for Gambia — 129 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$3,865
66.9 yrs
4.31
0.52
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All indicators
📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 38.2% | #126/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 38.2% | #126/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 5.6 | #120/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -5.1% | #143/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 9.5% | #124/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 27.7% | #82/97 | 2024 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 6.9 | #70/163 | 2022 |
| Economy Seen as Good (Afrobarometer) | 17.6% | #26/39 | 2023 |
| Exchange Rate (per US$) | 67.7 | #65/197 | 2024 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #112/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | -1% | #43/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 2.8 | #169/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 11.3 | #160/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 953 | #179/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 2,011 | #144/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 3,865 | #171/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 2.7% | #92/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 68.3% | #54/185 | 2026 |
| Income per Person | 948 | #175/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 5.8% | #45/191 | 2026 |
| Mobile Money Account | 19.1% | #52/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 5.1% | #25/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #153/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 4,656,793,663 | #154/165 | 2022 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.9 | #27/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #19/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 18.8 | #209/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 1.9 | #149/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 2.9 | #132/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 285 | #54/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 6,728 | #71/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 64.3% | #105/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 69% | #178/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 45.8% | #15/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 49.5% | #145/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 106.8 | #121/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 23.6% | #59/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 2.8% | #81/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 4.9 | #139/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.2 | #181/203 | 2024 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 37.6 | #141/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 0% | #189/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 69.4 | #46/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 53.5% | #18/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.9 | #106/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 2.7 | #117/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 22 | #29/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 52.6% | #14/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 89.8% | #47/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 17.4% | #133/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.6 | #119/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 31.3% | #51/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 2.8% | #103/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.6 | #69/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 42.4 | #132/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 4.1 | #104/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 70.3% | #64/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.3 | #128/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #109/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.1 | #130/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #3/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #119/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0 | #133/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.9 | #123/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #170/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 79% | #27/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 50.5% | #28/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 87.2% | #41/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 87.5% | #33/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 35.6% | #36/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 21.7% | #29/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 66.9% | #10/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Science | 73.4% | #72/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 63.1% | #80/143 | 2018 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 54.5% | #31/39 | 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.