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Agriculture - products:

cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical softwood); fish

Industries:

petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, gold; chemicals, ship repair, food and beverages, textiles, lumbering and plywood, cement

Industrial production growth rate:

1% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 124

Electricity - production:

1.774 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 137

Electricity - consumption:

1.446 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 140

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Oil - production:

247,800 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 39

Oil - consumption:

14,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 138

Oil - exports:

227,300 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 50

Oil - imports:

4,185 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 164

Oil - proved reserves:

2 billion bbl (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 33

Natural gas - production:

90 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 80

Natural gas - consumption:

90 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 103

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 175

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 178

Natural gas - proved reserves:

28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 71

Current account balance:

$2.727 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 39 $1.549 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$9.333 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 90 $7.046 billion (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

crude oil 70%, timber, manganese, uranium (2001)

Exports - partners:

US 25.4%, China 19.1%, Japan 10.2%, France 5.4%, Spain 4% (2008)

Imports:

$2.577 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 143 $2.2 billion (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, construction materials

Imports - partners:

France 32.2%, US 11.1%, China 5.4%, Belgium 4.7%, Cameroon 4.4%,

Netherlands 4.2% (2008)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$1.925 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 111 $1.238 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$2.986 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 128 $4.895 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Exchange rates:

Cooperation Financiere en Afrique Centrale francs (XAF) per US dollar - 447.81 (2008 est.), 481.83 (2007), 522.89 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004)

note: since 1 January 1999, the Central African CFA franc (XAF) has been pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro; Central African CFA franc (XAF) coins and banknotes are not accepted in countries using West African CFA francs (XOF), and vice versa, even though the two currencies trade at par

Communications ::Gabon

Telephones - main lines in use:

26,500 (2008) country comparison to the world: 182

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1.3 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 137

Telephone system:

general assessment: adequate service by African standards and improving with the help of a growing mobile cell network system with multiple providers; mobile-cellular subscribership reached nearly 90 per 100 persons in 2008

domestic: adequate system of cable, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, radiotelephone communication stations, and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations

international: country code - 241; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 6, FM 7 (plus 11 repeaters), shortwave 4 (2001)

Television broadcast stations:

4 (plus 4 repeaters) (2001)

Internet country code:

.ga

Internet hosts:

91 (2009) country comparison to the world: 199

Internet users:

90,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 158

Transportation ::Gabon

Airports:

44 (2009) country comparison to the world: 98

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 13

over 3,047 m: 1

2,438 to 3,047 m: 1

1,524 to 2,437 m: 9

914 to 1,523 m: 1

under 914 m: 1 (2009)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 31

1,524 to 2,437 m: 6

914 to 1,523 m: 11

under 914 m: 14 (2009)

Pipelines:

gas 240 km; oil 723 km (2008)

Railways:

total: 814 km country comparison to the world: 100 standard gauge: 814 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)

Roadways:

total: 9,170 km country comparison to the world: 138 paved: 937 km

unpaved: 8,233 km (2004)

Waterways:

1,600 km (310 km on Ogooue River) (2008) country comparison to the world: 51

Merchant marine:

registered in other countries: 2 (Cambodia 1, Panama 1) (2008) country comparison to the world: 143

Ports and terminals:

Gamba, Libreville, Lucinda, Port-Gentil

Military ::Gabon

Military branches:

Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police

Military service age and obligation:

20 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2007)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16–49: 331,181

females age 16–49: 332,498 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16–49: 195,519

females age 16–49: 190,519 (2009 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 16,933

female: 16,942 (2009 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.4% of GDP (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 38

Transnational Issues ::Gabon

Disputes - international:

UN urges Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane Island and lesser islands and to establish a maritime boundary in hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 7,178 (Republic of Congo) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Gabon is predominantly a destination country for children trafficked from other African countries for the purpose of forced labor; girls are primarily trafficked for domestic servitude, forced market vending, forced restaurant labor, and sexual exploitation, while boys are trafficked for forced street hawking and forced labor in small workshops

tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Gabon is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007, particularly in terms of efforts to convict and punish trafficking offenders; the government has not reported the convictions or sentences of any trafficking offenders; the government did not take steps to reduce demand for commercial sex acts (2008)

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@Gambia, The (Africa)

Introduction ::Gambia, The

Background:

The Gambia gained its independence from the UK in 1965. Geographically surrounded by Senegal, it formed a short-lived federation of Senegambia between 1982 and 1989. In 1991 the two nations signed a friendship and cooperation treaty, but tensions have flared up intermittently since then. Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH led a military coup in 1994 that overthrew the president and banned political activity. A new constitution and presidential elections in 1996, followed by parliamentary balloting in 1997, completed a nominal return to civilian rule. JAMMEH has been elected president in all subsequent elections, including most recently in late 2006.

Geography ::Gambia, The

Location:

Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and Senegal

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