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Gabon
Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, lying on the equator. It is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, while sharing a maritime border with São Tomé and Príncipe to the west in the Gulf of Guinea.
Summary from Wikipédia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Data refreshed on 2026.10.08 · source: Wikidata
Points to watch 2026.10.09
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Alert
Recent institutional rupture: Coup 30 août 2023 (Oligui Nguema).
- Context
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Context
Not free according to Freedom House (score 25/100). Freedom House 2025
Drawn automatically from the file's layers, sources shown; no hand-written text. JSON
The Institute's composite reading
Risque élevé
5.3 /10 risk
- Security 0.0
- Legitimacy 3.9
- Economy 4.5
- Diplomacy 5.0
- Influence 0.0
Security: 0 stable → 10 unstable · others: 0 weak → 10 strong. Computed from V-Dem, FH, CPI, RSF, World Bank, SIPRI, sanctions.
- Capital
- Libreville
- Population
- 2,469,296 inh.
- Area
- 267,668 km²
- Currency
- XAF
- Regime
- republic
Executive in office
Head of State
Brice Oligui Nguema
Head of Government
Raymond Ndong Sima
Government in office 5 members
ministre des Affaires étrangères
Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny
Ministre de l’Éducation nationale, chargé de la Formation civique
Alpha Bacar Barry
ministre de la Santé
Elza Ayo Bivigou
Ministre de la Communication
Pascal Houangni Ambouroue
Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation
Pacôme Kossi
Parliament
Assemblée nationale
143 seats
Chair Faustin Boukoubi
Sénat
102 seats
Economic indicators World Bank · 2025
GDP
21 G$
GDP / capita
8,263 $
Growth
2.5 %
Inflation
1.8 %
Unemployment
20.2 %
Defense / GDP
1.5 %
Life expectancy
68.5 yrs
Military bases Institute · Wikipedia
active rotational or scaled down uncertain closed or handed over foreign base on national soil
Register kept by the Institute, updated 2026.10.08; coordinates and links read from Wikipedia.
Foreign bases on national soil 1
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1
Scaled downCamp de Gaulle
France · Libreville
Turned in 2024 into a camp shared with the Gabonese army, focused on training; about a hundred personnel.
Governance indices V-Dem 2025 · Freedom House 2026 · CPI 2025 · RSF 2026
Democracy (V-Dem)
0.30/1
Freedoms (Freedom House)
25/100
Corruption (CPI)
29/100
Press freedom (RSF)
71/100
Military posture SIPRI · 2025
Global spending rank
#110
Annual budget
0.3 Md$
Defense effort
1.7 %PIB
Trade dependencies OEC · UN Comtrade · 2023
Exports
8 Md$
Imports
3 Md$
Balance
5 Md$
Top exports
- 63% Pétrole brut
- 17% Manganèse
Top imports
- 11% Pétrole raffiné
Coup d'État août 2023.
Diplomatic alignment UNGA 2020-2024 · Bailey-Strezhnev-Voeten
Vote concordance with each power at UN General Assembly.
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USA
29%
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GBR
31%
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FRA
36%
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DEU
36%
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RUS
53%
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CHN
67%
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IND
65%
Abstention: 25%
Political calendar Institute · Wikipedia · 2026-10-08
Upcoming
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2031
Présidentielle
Last election
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2025-10-11
Democratic Union of Builders 101 seats, Gabonese Democratic Party 17, Independents 8 (of 145)
Result read from Wikipedia on 2026.10.08 (CC BY-SA)
- 2025-09-27
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2025-04-12
Brice Oligui Nguema 94.9% · turnout 70.4%
Last institutional rupture Coup 30 août 2023 (Oligui Nguema)
Society · human UNDP HDI 2023 · World Bank · WID · UNHCR 2025
HDI
0.733/1
Refugees hosted
166
Refugees originating
984
National anthem
La Concorde
Alliances and organisations Institut · Wikidata
- UN
- WTO
- OPEC
- Commonwealth
- Francophonie (OIF)
- OIC
- African Union
- ECCAS
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Global attention Wikipedia · 90 days
The country's Wikipedia article is usually read 2,030 times a day (French and English). On 2026.10.07: 2,463, or ×1.2.
French + English French usual level 2026.07.10 · 2026.10.07 Wikimedia statistics (CC0), human users
Sources and freshness
- Executive, government, parliament, anthem · Wikidata (CC0) · 2026-10-08
- Economy · World Bank (CC BY 4.0) · 2025
- Indices and figures · V-Dem 2026 (OWID) · Freedom House 2026 (OWID) · Transparency International CPI 2025 · RSF 2026 · PNUD IDH 2025 (OWID) · UNHCR 2025 · SIPRI 2026 (OWID) · read on 2026-10-08
- Memberships · Wikidata (CC0) · 2026-10-08
- Political calendar · Institute and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 2026-10-08
- Sanctions · US Treasury (OFAC), SDN and non-SDN lists · list of 2026-10-02 · read on 2026-10-08
- Sanctions · United Kingdom, UK Sanctions List (FCDO) · list of 2026-10-07 · read on 2026-10-08
- Sanctions · European Union, consolidated financial sanctions list · list of 2026-09-22 · read on 2026-10-08
- Institute dossier (sanctions, treaties, visits, capabilities) · as of 2026-05-01
- Summary · Wikipédia (CC BY-SA 4.0)