São Tomé and Príncipe
- Capital
- São Tomé
- Population
- 215,000
- Area
- 964 km²
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (Db)
- Demonym
- Sao Tomean
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
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.
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.
Empty volcanic islands turned by Portugal into one of the world's first slave-plantation societies — a sugar, then cocoa, economy built on bondage and forced labour, scarred by the 1595 revolt of Rei Amador and the 1953 Batepá massacre, and freed at last in 1975.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.