Gabon
General information
Capital: Libreville
Currency unit: CFA franc
Official language: French
Area: 257,670 km²
Population in million: 2,119,280.0
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 7,953
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 17,876
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 52.1
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.6 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 32.7 %
Life expectancy at birth: 65.8 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 85 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 16,853,600,000.00
Agriculture value added of GDP: 5.4
Industry value added of GDP: 48.8
Services value added of GDP: 0.7
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 4,888,590.00
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 2,104,710.00
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Wood sheets for veneering (1.53 %)
Fibreboard of wood (0.52 %)
Surveying hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments (0.03 %)
Ferro-alloys (0.00 %)
Garments (0.00 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Wood in the rough (3.32 %)
Wood sawn (1.99 %)
Natural rubber (0.71 %)
Manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes (0.23 %)
Railway or tramway sleepers (0.08 %)
Macroeconomic competitiveness
| Gabon | ||
|---|---|---|
| Macroeconomic competitiveness | 39 | |
| Effective PPP conversion factor ratio (net of productivity) Gabon: 39 | 39 |