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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 % |
Visualizations
Location on a map
Coordinates: [13°46′N, -16°56′S]
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago