Gabon 
Facts
Population:
1,221,175
note:
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
33.29% (male 203,677; female 202,833)
15-64 years:
60.77% (male 373,828; female 368,282)
65 years and over:
5.94% (male 35,867; female 36,688) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.02% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
27.42 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
17.22 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.98 male(s)/female
total population:
1.01 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
94.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
49.59 years
male:
48.47 years
female:
50.75 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.69 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
4.16% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
23,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
2,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Gabonese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Gabonese
Ethnic groups:
Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Eshira, Bapounou, Bateke), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality
Religions:
Christian 55%-75%, animist, Muslim less than 1%
Languages:
French (official), Fang, Myene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
63.2%
male:
73.7%
female:
53.3% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $7.7 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
1.2% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $6,300 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
10%
industry:
60%
services:
30% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.5% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
600,000
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 60%, services and government 25%, industry and commerce 15%
Unemployment rate:
21% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.5 billion
expenditures:
$1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $302 million (1996 est.)
Industries:
food and beverage; textile; lumbering and plywood; cement; petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, uranium, and gold mining; chemicals; ship repair
Industrial production growth rate:
2.3% (1995)
Electricity - production:
1.02 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
29.9%
hydro:
70.1%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
948.6 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical softwood); fish
Exports:
$3.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil 75%, timber, manganese, uranium (1998)
Exports - partners:
US 47%, France 19%, China 8%, Japan 1.3% (1999)
Imports:
$1 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, petroleum products, construction materials
Imports - partners:
France 64%, US 4%, UK 2%, Netherlands 2%, (1999)
Debt - external:
$3.9 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$331 million (1995)
Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
Currency code:
XAF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 699.21 (January 2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996); note - from 1 January 1999, the XAF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XAF per euro
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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