GabonandEquatorial Guinea

17 August 1960 · 12 October 1968

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

Gabon

17 August 1960 — Independence from French Equatorial Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

Equatorial Guinea

12 October 1968 — Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
38
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

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.

Economy

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2025 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

GABGNQ

Health

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2021 / 2000 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2023 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2019 / 2015 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2019 / 2005 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2003 / 2000 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

GABGNQ
  • R&D spending
    0.6%2009—
    Observed 2009 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2023 / — · figures compared, never graded

Geography

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2021 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

GABGNQ
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event 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. 1900

    Treaty of Paris fixes Río Muni

    The 1900 Treaty of Paris with France delimited Spain's mainland enclave of Río Muni at roughly 26,000 km², far smaller than Spain had claimed, setting the borders with French Cameroon and Gabon.

    Colonisation · from the Equatorial Guinea chronicle · The British base and the Spanish cocoa colony · REFS 2 — History of Equatorial Guinea, Spanish Guinea