Gambia, The GM
Sub-Saharan Africa · Low income · capital Banjul
- Population
- 2,822,093
- 2025
- GDP
- $2.6 billion
- 2025
- Life expectancy
- 66.1 y
- 2024
Geospatial extent
Bounding box -16.83°–-13.82° E, 13.07°–13.82° N · centroid 13.44, -15.32 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
- MRC Unit the Gambia — 3,697 works · ROR · site
- University of the Gambia — 1,837 works · ROR · site
- Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital — 470 works · ROR · site
- Euclid University — 442 works · ROR · site
- Ministry of Health and Social Welfare — 368 works · ROR · site
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
mixed system of English common law, Islamic law, and customary law
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| account_ownership | 38.2 | 2024 | World Bank FX.OWN.TOTL.ZS |
| Account ownership (% age 15+) | 38.2 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 76.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| air_freight | 0.0 | 2023 | World Bank IS.AIR.GOOD.MT.K1 |
| airline_routes_departures | 13.0 | 2026 | OpenFlights route database |
| airports_openflights | 1.0 | 2026 | OpenFlights airport database |
| airports_total | 1,136.0 | 2019 | World Bank IS.AIR.DPRT |
| armed_forces_pct | 0.6 | 2020 | World Bank MS.MIL.TOTL.TF.ZS |
| armed_forces_personnel | 4,000.0 | 2020 | World Bank MS.MIL.TOTL.P1 |
| Arms imports (SIPRI TIV) | 1,000,000.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| arrivals | 246,000.0 | 2020 | World Bank ST.INT.ARVL |
| atm_per_100k | 8.4 | 2024 | World Bank FB.ATM.TOTL.P5 |
| bachelors_attainment_pct | 2.5 | 2023 | World Bank SE.TER.CUAT.BA.ZS |
| bank_branches_p5 | 5.6 | 2024 | World Bank FB.CBK.BRCH.P5 |
| bank_capital_ratio_pct | 12.1 | 2022 | World Bank FB.BNK.CAPA.ZS |
| bank_capital_to_assets_pct | 12.1 | 2022 | World Bank FB.BNK.CAPA.ZS |
| basic_water_pct | 87.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| B-READY business entry (0-100) | 48.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY business insolvency (0-100) | 42.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY business location (0-100) | 39.9 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY dispute resolution (0-100) | 39.3 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY financial services (0-100) | 50.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY international trade (0-100) | 42.8 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY labour (0-100) | 53.2 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY market competition (0-100) | 32.5 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY Pillar 3 operational efficiency (0-100) | 45.8 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY Pillar 2 public services (0-100) | 27.2 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY Pillar 1 regulatory framework (0-100) | 54.0 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY taxation (0-100) | 28.4 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY utility services (0-100) | 45.2 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| broad_money_growth | 7.8 | 2024 | World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.ZG |
| broad_money_pct | 46.9 | 2024 | World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS |
| broad_money_pct_gdp | 46.9 | 2024 | World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS |
| budget_total_musd | 658.3 | 2025 | Gambia Ministry of Finance Approved Budget 2025 |
| cereal_tonnes | 124,840.9 | 2024 | World Bank AG.PRD.CREL.MT |
| che_gdp_pct | 2.9 | 2023 | WHO Global Health Observatory GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011 |
| che_per_capita_usd | 25.7 | 2023 | WHO Global Health Observatory GHED_CHE_pc_US_SHA2011 |
| child_stunting_pct | 17.5 | 2020 | World Bank World Development Indicators (2026) |
| claims_on_central_gov | 27.6 | 2024 | World Bank FS.AST.CGOV.GD.ZS |
| clean_fuels_cooking | 3.0 | 2024 | World Bank EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS |
| Clinical trials involving this country (ClinicalTrials.gov) | 102.0 | 2026 | ClinicalTrials.gov v2 (country from trial locations) |
| container_port_traffic | 71,469.7 | 2019 | World Bank IS.SHP.GOOD.TU |
| container_traffic_teu | 6.6 | 2021 | World Bank IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ |
| cpi | 285.9 | 2024 | World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL |
| CPIA business-regulatory rating (1-6, World Bank) | 3.0 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.BREG.XQ |
| CPIA financial-sector rating (1-6) | 4.0 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.FINQ.XQ |
| CPIA public-sector management rating (1-6) | 3.2 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.PUBS.XQ |
| CPIA trade rating (1-6) | 4.0 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.TRAD.XQ |
| crop_production_idx | 91.6 | 2024 | World Bank AG.PRD.CROP.XD |
| Ease of doing business rank (archived DB2020) | 155.0 | 2020 | World Bank Doing Business archive (DB2020 revised, project discontinued 2021) |
| Ease of doing business score (archived DB2020) | 50.3 | 2020 | World Bank Doing Business archive (DB2020 revised, project discontinued 2021) |
| defense_spend_usd | 14,738,181.3 | 2025 | World Bank MS.MIL.XPND.CD |
| dentists_per_10k | 6.6 | 2023 | WHO Global Health Observatory HWF_0006 |
| deposit_rate | 6.5 | 2025 | World Bank FR.INR.DPST |
| deposit_rate_pct | 6.5 | 2025 | World Bank FR.INR.DPST |
| Emigrants living abroad (UN DESA 2020) | 45,796.0 | 2020 | UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2020 (bulk xlsx) |
| International migrant stock (UN DESA 2020) | 101,893.0 | 2020 | UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2020 (bulk xlsx) |
| domestic_credit_private_pct | 9.4 | 2024 | World Bank FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS |
| dpt_immun_pct | 80.0 | 2024 | World Bank SH.IMM.IDPT |
| edu_spend_per_student_primary | 8.5 | 2015 | World Bank SE.XPD.PRIM.PC.ZS |
| edu_spend_per_student_secondary | 14.0 | 2010 | World Bank SE.XPD.SECO.PC.ZS |
| edu_spend_per_student_tertiary | 115.0 | 2012 | World Bank SE.XPD.TERT.PC.ZS |
| education_spend_pct_gdp | 2.8 | 2023 | World Bank World Development Indicators (2026) |
| education_spend_secondary | 32.8 | 2015 | World Bank SE.XPD.SECO.ZS |
| education_spend_tertiary | 11.3 | 2015 | World Bank SE.XPD.TERT.ZS |
| Access to electricity (%) | 69.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| electricity_access_rural | 39.2 | 2024 | World Bank EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS |
| electricity_access_urban | 85.6 | 2024 | World Bank EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZS |
| electricity_capacity_gw | 0.2 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_emissions_mtco2e | 0.3 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_clean_twh | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_demand_twh | 0.5 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_fossil_twh | 0.5 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_hydro,_bioenergy_and_other_renewables_twh | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_renewables_twh | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_twh | 0.5 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_wind_and_solar_twh | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_bioenergy_pct | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_coal_pct | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_gas_pct | 0.0 | 2024 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| showing 80 of 55,187 measured series — full list: CSV · JSON | |||
Language
English canonical body. 282 name labels held (Wikidata). Missing languages are absent, not machine-translated.
- ab Гамбиа
- ace Gambia
- aeb-arab غامبيا
- af Gambië
- am ጋምቢያ
- ami Gambia
- an Gambia
- ang Gambia
- ann Gambia
- anp गैम्बिया
- ar غامبيا
- ary ڭامبيا
- arz جامبيا
- ast Gambia
- avk Gambia
- az Qambiya
- azb قامبییا
- ba Гамбия
- ban Gambia
- bar Gambia
- bcl Gambya
- be Гамбія
- be-tarask Гамбія
- bew Gambia
- bg Гамбия
- bgn گامبیا
- bho गांबिया
- bi Gambia
- bjn Gambia
- bm Gambia
- bn গাম্বিয়া
- bo གེམ་བྷི་ཡ།
- bpy গাম্বিয়া
- br Gambia
- bs Gambija
- bxr Гамби
- ca Gàmbia
- cbk-zam Gambia
- cdo Gambia
- ce Гамби
- ceb Gambia
- ckb گامبیا
- co Gambia
- crh Gambiya
- crh-latn Gambiya
- cs Gambie
- cv Гамби
- cy Y Gambia
- da Gambia
- dag Gambia
- de Gambia
- de-at Gambia
- de-ch Gambia
- diq Gambiya
- dsb Gambija
- dty गाम्बिया
- dv ގެމްބިއާ
- dz གྷེམ་བི་ཡ
- ee Gambia
- el Γκάμπια
- en The Gambia
- en-ca Gambia
- en-gb The Gambia
- eo Gambio
- es Gambia
- et Gambia
- eu Gambia
- ext Gambia
- fa گامبیا
- ff Gammbi
- fi Gambia
- fo Gambia
- fon Ganbitò
- fr Gambie
- frp Gambie
- frr Gambia
- fy Gambia
- ga an Ghaimbia
- gag Gambiya
- gcr Ganbi
- gd A' Ghaimbia
- gl Gambia
- glk گامبيا
- gn Gámbia
- gpe Gambia
- gsw Gambia
- gu ગેમ્બિયા
- gur The Gambia
- gv y Ghambia
- ha Gambiya
- hak Gambia
- he גמביה
- hi गाम्बिया
- hif Gambia
- hr Gambija
- hsb Gambija
- ht Ganbi
- hu Gambia
- hy Գամբիա
- ia Gambia
- id Gambia
- ie The Gambia
- ig The Gambia
- ilo Gambia
- io Gambia
- is Gambía
- it Gambia
- ja ガンビア
- jam Giambia
- jv Gambia
- ka გამბია
- kaa Gambiya
- kab Gambya
- kai Gambiya
- kaj Gambya
- kbp Kambii
- kcg Gambiya
- kg Gambia
- kge Gambia
- ki Gambia
- kk Гамбия
- kn ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯ
- ko 감비아
- krc Гамбия
- ks گیمبِیا
- ku Gambiya
- kw Gambi
- ky Гамбия
- la Gambia
- lad Gambia
- lb Gambia
- lfn Gambia
- lg Gambia
- li Gambia
- lij Gambia
- lld Gambia
- lmo Gambia
- ln Gambi
- lo ປະເທດກຳບີ
- lrc گامبیا
- lt Gambija
- lv Gambija
- lzh 岡比亞
- mai गाम्बिया
- map-bms Gambia
- mdf Гамбия
- mg Gambia
- mhr Гамбий
- mi Te Kamopia
- min Gambia
- mk Гамбија
- ml ഗാംബിയ
- mn Гамби
- mni ꯒꯦꯝꯕꯤꯌꯥ
- mnw ဂမ္ဗဳယျာ
- mos The Gambia
- mr गांबिया
- mrj Гамби
- ms Gambia
- mt Gambja
- my ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံ
- mzn گامبیا
- na Gambiya
- nah Gambia
- nan Gambia
- nb Gambia
- nds Gambia
- nds-nl Gambia
- ne गाम्बिया
- new गाम्बिया
- nl Gambia
- nn Gambia
- nov Gambia
- nqo ߜ߭ߊ߲ߓߌ߫
- nso Gambia
- nup Gambia
- ny Gambia
- oc Gàmbia
- olo Gambii
- om Gaambiyaa
- or ଗାମ୍ବିଆ
- os Гамби
- pa ਗਾਂਬੀਆ
- pam Gambia
- pap Gambia
- pcm Di Gambia
- pi गाम्बिया
- pih Gambia
- pl Gambia
- pms Gambia
- pnb گیمبیا
- ps ګامبيا
- pt Gâmbia
- pt-br Gâmbia
- qu Gambya
- rki ဂမ်ဘီယာသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
- rm Gambia
- ro Gambia
- ru Гамбия
- rue Ґамбія
- rup Gambia
- rw Gambiya
- sa गाम्बिया
- sah Гамбия
- sc Gàmbia
- scn Gambia
- sco The Gambie
- sd گيمبيا
- se Gambia
- sg Gambïi
- sgs Gambėjė
- sh Gambija
- shi Gambya
- shn မိူင်းၵမ်ႇပီးယႃး
- si ගැම්බියාව
- sk Gambia
- sl Gambija
- sm Le Gambia
- smj Gámmba
- smn Gambia
- sms Gambia
- sn Gambia
- so Gambia
- sq Gambia
- sr Гамбија
- sr-ec Гамбија
- sr-el Gambija
- ss IGambiya
- st Gambia
- stq Gambia
- su Gambia
- sv Gambia
- sw Gambia
- szl Gambijo
- szy Gambia
- ta காம்பியா
- tay Gambia
- te గాంబియా
- tg Гамбия
- th ประเทศแกมเบีย
- ti ጋምቢያ
- tk Gambiýa
- tl Gambia
- tly Qambiyə
- tok ma Kanpija
- tr Gambiya
- trv Gambia
- ts Gambiya
- tt Гамбия
- tum Gambia
- tw The Gambia
- udm Гамбия
- ug گامبىيە
- uk Гамбія
- ur گیمبیا
- uz Gambia
- vec Gànbia
- vep Gambii
- vi Gambia
- vo Gambiyän
- vro Gambia
- war Gambia
- wo Gàmbi
- wuu 冈比亚
- xal Гамбудин Орн
- xmf გამბია
- yi די גאמביע
- yo Gámbíà
- yue 甘比亞
- za Gambia
- zea Gambia
- zgh ⴳⴰⵎⴱⵢⴰ
- zh 岡比亞
- zh-cn 冈比亚
- zh-hans 冈比亚
- zh-hant 甘比亞
- zh-hk 岡比亞
- zh-mo 岡比亞
- zh-my 冈比亚
- zh-sg 冈比亚
- zh-tw 甘比亞
- zu IGambia
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents · service | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2022) patent application counts (residents + non-residents) from the World Bank/WIPO series; patent documents are not ingested source |
| legal · service | YELLOW · partial | legal-system description (CIA World Factbook, public domain); no statutes, gazettes or case law ingested, and Factbook recency is not guaranteed source |
| alerts · service | GREEN · ingested | 0 alerts in current GDACS/USGS window (measured, not an all-clear). | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — full current GDACS (125) + USGS (284) window (409 alert rows) with per-record metadata. Kept green. source |
| defense · service | GREEN · ingested | military expenditure (% of GDP), SIPRI series via World Bank; not procurement, capabilities or intent source |
| space · service | YELLOW · partial | no orbital launch site in this country in the GCAT launch log (1942-2026) source |
| maps · service | GREEN · ingested | Natural Earth 1:10m boundary + centroid + bbox area computed (2.3 deg2); no cadastre, address data or navigation map. GADM L0 fallback: ok (gadm41_GMB_0.json). | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — Natural Earth 1:10m boundary + GADM L0 fallback for every mapped country; complete geodata record set. Kept green. source |
| passport · service | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research · service | GREEN · ingested | 3,996 scholarly works since 2021 with authoring institutions here (OpenAlex); a publication index, not a quality ranking source |
| economy · service | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health · service | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education · service | YELLOW · partial | primary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source |
| energy · service | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water · service | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity · service | YELLOW · partial | fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source |
| crime | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2021) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 0 numeric UNODC/OWID crime series rows only. Missing: full UNODC CTS offence/incident records. source |
| conflict | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UCDP/GDELT event corpus. source |
| business | YELLOW · partial | newly registered limited-liability companies (World Bank/IC.BUS.NREG); not a company register source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | stale data (2018) OpenAlex institutions snapshot 2026-10: 21 institutions, works counted per country; CC0 1.0. source |
| prison | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2021) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full World Prison Brief prison corpus. source |
| interpol | YELLOW · partial | 0 public Interpol Red Notices in the ingested snapshot list a national of this country (measured zero for this snapshot; not an absence of crime). source |
| arms | YELLOW · partial | SIPRI arms-transfer trend indicator values (imports and exports) via the World Bank; TIV is a trend measure, not currency source |
| sanctions | GREEN · ingested | OFAC SDN 19 + UN consolidated 0 + EU 0 designation reference(s), snapshot 2026-10-26; counts are list references (text/code attribution), not convictions or proof of activity; 0 is a measured zero against these three ingested lists | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — full OFAC SDN (19,471), UN consolidated (1,001) and EU (11,154) designation lists with per-record metadata (snapshot 2026-10-26). Kept green. source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | YELLOW · partial | prevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source |
| labor | YELLOW · partial | unemployment (% of labour force), ILO modelled estimate via World Bank source |
| finance | YELLOW · partial | account ownership (% age 15+), World Bank Findex source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | YELLOW · partial | international tourist arrivals, World Bank/UNWTO source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 9 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full transport-network corpus. source |
| investment | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full FDI/investment corpus. source |
| remittances | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full WB/IMF remittance corpus. source |
| health_finance | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2023) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full WHO GHED health-finance corpus. source |
| budget | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2018) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full national budget/tender corpus. source |
| treaty | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UNTC treaty-text corpus. source |
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Backlinks
Department pages with measured records for Gambia, The:
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Cite this page
Gambia, The (GM). go-v.org estate, https://estate.116.202.234.183.nip.io/gm. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-11-08.