The Gambia
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Key facts
- Currency: Gambian dalasi
- Capital city: Banjul
- Region: Western Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 10,120 km²
- Population: 2,705,992
- Political Leader: Adama Barrow (President)
Latest news (see all)
'Right to freedom from torture': UN experts urge the Gambia not to decriminalise FGM
Read: The Guardian
2024-04-11
Metrics
General information
Business
| Expense | 17.16 % of GDP |
| GDP | 2,187,190,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 11.51 annual % |
| Self-employed | 74.88 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 18.20 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 4.14 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 73.44 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 6,340.00 km² |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 611.40 kt |
| Fertility rate | 4.68 births per woman |
| Forest area | 2,369 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 0.00 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 375.87 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 13.10 years |
| Methane emissions | 1,346.29 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 359.18 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 1,359,657 |
| Male Population | 1,346,335 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 48.74 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 10,197.80 km² |
| Rural population | 978,162 |
| Urban land area | 338.75 km² |
| Urban population | 1,727,830 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 1.93 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 33.26 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 7.54 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 18.58 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 2.61 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.80 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.10 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 62 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 4.80 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 63.70 % of population |
| Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 5,600 |
| Individuals using the Internet | 32.96 % of population |
| Net migration | -3,000 |
| Press freedom | 2.49 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 4,000 |
| Democracy score | 4.31 |
| Democracy type | Hybrid regime |
| Military expenditure | 0.69 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 8.62 % |
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Coordinates: [13°46′N, -16°56′S]
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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