Side by side

Congo and Gabon compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇨🇬Congo

15 August 1960Independence from French Equatorial Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

🇬🇦Gabon

17 August 1960Independence from French Equatorial Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
2
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1910

    Gabon joins French Equatorial Africa

    France reorganised its Central African colonies into French Equatorial Africa in 1910 — Gabon, the Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad, governed from Brazzaville — with Gabon a separate colony.

    Colonisation · from the Gabon chronicle · Libreville, Brazza, and French conquest · French Equatorial Africa, History of Gabon

  2. 1910

    Middle Congo joins French Equatorial Africa

    France reorganised its Central African colonies in 1910 into French Equatorial Africa — Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad — governed from Brazzaville, which became the federation's federal capital.

    Colonisation · from the Congo chronicle · Brazza, Brazzaville, and the colony of Middle Congo · French Equatorial Africa, Republic of the Congo, Moyen-Congo (Middle Congo) — Formation