International Rankings of Gambia The 2022, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Gambia, The, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Gambia, The, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	58	0.20	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	175	5000	2020
Internet users - percent of population	60	37.00 %	2020
Internet users - total	144	894166	2020
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	53	2.00	2020
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	141	60000	2020
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	64	111.00	2020
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	141	2.678 million	2020
Economy
Budget - expenditures	186	339.000 million US Dollars	2017
Budget - revenues	187	300.400 million US Dollars	2017
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	51	2.60 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	88	194.000 million US Dollars	2017
Debt - external	170	586.800 million US Dollars	2017
Exports	185	350.000 million US Dollars	2018
GDP (official exchange rate)	184	1.746 billion US Dollars	2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	138	20.80 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	100	12.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	12	90.70 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	72	40.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	89	19.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	68	2.70 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	40	20.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	135	14.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	69	65.40 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	71	36 %	2015
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	30	36.90 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2003
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	31	2.00 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	182	620.000 million US Dollars	2018
Industrial production growth rate	86	0.80 %	2017
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	29	7.10 %	2019
Labor force	144	777100 US Dollars	2007
Labor force - by occupation - agriculture	12	75 %	N/A
Labor force - by occupation - industry	71	19 %	N/A
Labor force - by occupation - services	149	6 %	1996
Population below poverty line	20	49 %	2015
Public debt	27	88.00 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	167	5.220 billion US Dollars	2020
Real GDP growth rate	37	4.60 %	2017
Real GDP per capita	163	2200 US Dollars	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	172	170.000 million US Dollars	2017
Taxes and other revenues	113	20.30 % of GDP	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	126	6.20	2018
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	110	8.10	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	114	7.10	N/A
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	176	606000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	177	606000	2019
Electricity - consumption	174	235.035 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	168	137000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	156	69.800 million kWh	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	6	98.90 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	57	1.00 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	170	3.547 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	169	3900 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - exports	120	42 bbl/day	2015
Refined petroleum products - imports	171	3738 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	158	1 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	144	2 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	46	32 micrograms per cubic meter	2016
Land use - agricultural land	45	56	2018
Land use - arable land	12	41	2018
Land use - forest	52	44	2018
Land use - permanent crops	74	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	90	15	2018
Revenue from forest resources	25	2 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	135	8.000 billion cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	143	39.200 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - industrial	134	21.200 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - municipal	148	41.200 million cubic meters	2017
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	20	3.75	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	76	65	2023
Geography
Area - land	157	10120 sq km	N/A
Area - total	156	11300 sq km	N/A
Area - water	103	1180 sq km	N/A
Coastline	139	80 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	168	63 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	142	34 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	135	50 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	122	749 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	45	56	2018
Land use - arable land	12	41	2018
Land use - forest	52	44	2018
Land use - permanent crops	74	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	90	15	2018
Population Density	52	238.48 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	45	1 % of GDP	2021
Population
Age structure - 15-24 years	24	20.12	N/A
Age structure - 25-54 years	146	36.39	N/A
Age structure - 55-64 years	163	4.53	N/A
Alcohol consumption per capita - other alcohols	11	2 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	107	3 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	29	28.78 births/1,000 population	2022
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	43	12 %	1920
Contraceptive prevalence rate	112	18.90 %	1920
Current health expenditure	72	4 % of GDP	2019
Death rate	132	5.81 deaths/1,000 population	2022
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	138	4.50 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	10	22.20 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	14	85.00 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	14	80.50 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	49	92 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	52	14 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	42	11 % of population	2020
Drinking water source - unimproved	13	8 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	56	3 % of GDP	2020
Hospital bed density	59	1.10 beds/1,000 population	2011
Infant mortality rate - female	36	33.53 deaths/1,000 live births	2022
Infant mortality rate - male	36	40.75 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	36	37.19 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - female	157	69 years	2022
Life expectancy at birth - male	151	66 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	153	68 years	N/A
Literacy - female	107	42 %	2015
Literacy - male	92	62 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	101	51 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	9	597.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2017
Median age - female	126	22 years	2020
Median age - male	120	22 years	N/A
Median age - total	118	22 years	N/A
Mother's mean age at first birth	68	21	1920
Net migration rate	75	0.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	99	10.30 %	2016
Physicians density	148	0.08 physicians/1,000 population	2020
Population	140	2.413 million	2022
Population growth rate	29	2.29 %	2022
Sanitation facility access - improved	74	76 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	23	66 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	33	40 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	19	24 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	13	1.02 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-24 years	22	1.01	N/A
Sex ratio - 25-54 years	25	0.96	N/A
Sex ratio - 55-64 years	45	0.76	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	13	0.88 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	10	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	19	0.98 male(s)/female	N/A
Tobacco use - female	102	1 %	2020
Tobacco use - male	93	21 %	2020
Tobacco use - total	95	11 %	2020
Total fertility rate	27	3.79 children born/woman	2022
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	20	3.75	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	76	65	2023
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	126	6.20	2018
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	110	8.10	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	114	7.10	N/A
Transportation
Airports	119	1	2021
Airports - with paved runways - over 3047 m	25	1	2021
Airports - with paved runways - total	75	1	N/A
Merchant marine - total	127	8	N/A
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	140	53735	2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	94	6.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	26	2	2020
Roadways - paved	132	518 km	2011
Roadways - total	126	2977 km	2011
Waterways	85	390 km	2010

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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