Gabon
- Capital
- Libreville
- Population
- 1.8 m
- Area
- 267,668 km²
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (Fr)
- Demonym
- Gabonese
- UN member
- Yes
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GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Share of the population that used the internet in the last three months.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the rainforest hunter-gatherers and the Bantu migrations of the Ogooué basin, through the Atlantic and slave trades of the Myènè coast, the founding of Libreville and French Equatorial Africa, to independence in 1960 and the long Bongo era ended by the coup of 2023.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.