Gabon

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    2,067,561 1
    Urban
    89.40% 1
    Rural
    10.60% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    15.6% 2
    Homicides
    9.00 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    101 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Fertility Rate
    3.85 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    5.10% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    65 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    82.28% 5
    Internet Users
    10% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$9,720 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    8.0% 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    1,013,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    54.69
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    3,323
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    1,994
    First Communions per Year
    2,261
    Confirmations per Year
    2,323
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    29,154
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    15,210
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    1,987
    Church Marriages per Year
    244
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    208
    Priests
    229
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    198
    Catholics per Priest
    4,422
    Parishes
    98
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    374
    Catholic Hospitals
    3
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    3
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.