Country or area · Middle Africa · Africa · UN WPP 2024

Gabon population

Gabon population now

2,660,729

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 2.6–2.7 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 2,484,788

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 2.64740 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 2.6–2.7 million
Median age: 22.6
Aged 65+: 4.2%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 1,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

GAB · 1950–2100 · in brief

Gabon in numbers

Gabon had 2,484,788 people in mid-2023, the 145th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.03% of the world's people. That is 5.3 times its 1950 population of 473 thousand.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 6.9 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 3.2 million to 14.2 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 28.1 in 1950 and 22.5 in 2023; the projection has 35.9 in 2100. 4.0% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 15.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

By size it is the 145th country in 2023; the projection puts it 135th in 2050 and 116th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Albania in 2028, Lithuania in 2028 and Armenia in 2030.

Population, mid-2023: 2,484,788
Rank by population, 2023: 145 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.03%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +2.22% · +54,041 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 9.6
Land area, 2023: 257,670 km²
Births, 2023: 68,745
Deaths, 2023: 15,577
Net migration, 2023: +987
Children per woman, 2023: 3.65
Median age, 2023: 22.5 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 68.3 years
In a city, 2025: 61 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 472,842
Projected, mid-2050: 4,084,533
Projected, mid-2100: 6,903,322

GAB · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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Show the numbers: Gabon, 1950–2100

Gabon: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	471,475		14,189	11,455	3.95	39.3
1951	estimate	474,209		14,238	11,382	3.95	40.0
1952	estimate	477,067		14,325	11,277	3.97	40.7
1953	estimate	480,110		14,444	11,169	3.99	41.5
1954	estimate	483,393		14,596	11,077	4.03	42.2
1955	estimate	486,908		14,782	10,965	4.07	43.0
1956	estimate	490,725		15,002	10,878	4.12	43.6
1957	estimate	494,846		15,251	10,798	4.17	44.4
1958	estimate	499,294		15,587	10,728	4.25	45.1
1959	estimate	504,162		15,962	10,667	4.34	45.8
1960	estimate	509,448		16,345	10,614	4.42	46.4
1961	estimate	515,184		16,725	10,565	4.50	47.1
1962	estimate	521,348		17,129	10,520	4.59	47.8
1963	estimate	527,949		17,474	10,473	4.65	48.4
1964	estimate	534,955		17,851	10,449	4.71	49.0
1965	estimate	542,359		18,279	10,376	4.79	49.7
1966	estimate	550,258		18,754	10,343	4.86	50.3
1967	estimate	558,668		19,190	10,308	4.92	50.9
1968	estimate	567,548		19,685	10,268	4.98	51.5
1969	estimate	576,966		20,213	10,243	5.05	52.1
1970	estimate	589,586		20,893	10,257	5.10	52.7
1971	estimate	602,105		21,624	10,267	5.16	53.3
1972	estimate	614,592		22,370	10,276	5.24	53.8
1973	estimate	627,328		23,010	10,278	5.29	54.4
1974	estimate	640,663		23,642	10,262	5.33	54.9
1975	estimate	654,718		24,421	10,259	5.39	55.5
1976	estimate	669,676		25,264	10,267	5.46	56.0
1977	estimate	685,580		26,131	10,288	5.52	56.5
1978	estimate	702,387		27,027	10,312	5.57	57.0
1979	estimate	720,102		27,883	10,330	5.61	57.4
1980	estimate	738,647		28,865	10,363	5.66	57.9
1981	estimate	758,131		29,933	10,404	5.73	58.3
1982	estimate	778,640		30,794	10,501	5.74	58.6
1983	estimate	799,932		31,729	10,568	5.76	59.0
1984	estimate	822,079		32,474	10,624	5.73	59.3
1985	estimate	844,923		33,284	10,666	5.71	59.7
1986	estimate	868,529		34,092	10,731	5.69	60.0
1987	estimate	892,880		35,030	10,819	5.67	60.2
1988	estimate	918,077		35,812	10,924	5.62	60.4
1989	estimate	943,964		36,378	11,018	5.55	60.6
1990	estimate	970,311		36,983	11,124	5.46	60.7
1991	estimate	997,157		37,562	11,228	5.37	60.9
1992	estimate	1,024,480		38,156	11,347	5.29	61.0
1993	estimate	1,052,281		38,705	11,471	5.19	61.1
1994	estimate	1,080,528		38,878	11,606	5.04	61.2
1995	estimate	1,108,913		39,006	11,717	4.88	61.3
1996	estimate	1,137,512		39,337	11,886	4.74	61.3
1997	estimate	1,166,518		40,058	12,004	4.66	61.4
1998	estimate	1,196,361		40,848	12,150	4.58	61.5
1999	estimate	1,227,110		41,613	12,283	4.50	61.7
2000	estimate	1,258,923		42,641	12,432	4.47	61.8
2001	estimate	1,292,222		43,515	12,575	4.42	62.0
2002	estimate	1,326,955		44,492	12,715	4.36	62.2
2003	estimate	1,363,315		45,437	12,803	4.30	62.5
2004	estimate	1,401,384		46,555	12,939	4.25	62.7
2005	estimate	1,441,833		47,830	13,064	4.21	63.0
2006	estimate	1,485,157		49,190	13,205	4.17	63.3
2007	estimate	1,531,517		50,710	13,315	4.14	63.6
2008	estimate	1,580,958		52,422	13,420	4.12	64.0
2009	estimate	1,633,392		54,613	13,577	4.14	64.4
2010	estimate	1,689,720		56,810	13,748	4.15	64.7
2011	estimate	1,750,038		58,825	13,903	4.15	65.1
2012	estimate	1,813,931		60,005	14,065	4.09	65.4
2013	estimate	1,879,848		61,063	14,234	4.02	65.8
2014	estimate	1,946,269		62,091	14,387	3.95	66.1
2015	estimate	2,010,530		63,444	14,569	3.92	66.3
2016	estimate	2,071,449		65,074	14,753	3.92	66.6
2017	estimate	2,129,163		66,377	14,922	3.91	66.8
2018	estimate	2,184,637		67,558	15,082	3.91	67.0
2019	estimate	2,239,998		68,362	15,178	3.88	67.3
2020	estimate	2,295,413		68,609	15,865	3.83	67.1
2021	estimate	2,349,665		68,779	16,167	3.78	67.1
2022	estimate	2,403,779		68,791	15,846	3.71	67.7
2023	estimate	2,457,715		68,745	15,577	3.65	68.3
2024	estimate	2,511,862		68,875	15,807	3.59	68.5
2025	projection	2,566,041	2.6–2.6 million	69,096	16,032	3.54	68.7
2026	projection	2,620,218	2.6–2.7 million	69,484	16,276	3.49	68.9
2027	projection	2,674,581	2.6–2.7 million	69,719	16,544	3.43	69.0
2028	projection	2,729,121	2.7–2.8 million	70,157	16,823	3.37	69.2
2029	projection	2,783,832	2.7–2.9 million	70,838	17,127	3.33	69.4
2030	projection	2,838,860	2.7–2.9 million	71,554	17,446	3.29	69.5
2031	projection	2,894,474	2.8–3.0 million	72,211	17,787	3.24	69.7
2032	projection	2,950,527	2.8–3.1 million	73,025	18,145	3.20	69.8
2033	projection	3,007,084	2.8–3.2 million	73,941	18,506	3.16	70.0
2034	projection	3,064,323	2.9–3.3 million	74,893	18,878	3.12	70.2
2035	projection	3,122,120	2.9–3.4 million	75,866	19,266	3.08	70.3
2036	projection	3,180,815	2.9–3.5 million	76,914	19,693	3.04	70.5
2037	projection	3,240,352	3.0–3.6 million	77,860	20,099	3.00	70.6
2038	projection	3,300,243	3.0–3.6 million	78,911	20,517	2.97	70.8
2039	projection	3,360,766	3.0–3.7 million	79,931	20,976	2.94	70.9
2040	projection	3,421,991	3.1–3.8 million	80,867	21,420	2.91	71.1
2041	projection	3,483,986	3.1–3.9 million	81,783	21,887	2.88	71.2
2042	projection	3,546,448	3.1–4.0 million	82,521	22,362	2.84	71.4
2043	projection	3,609,034	3.1–4.2 million	83,264	22,837	2.81	71.5
2044	projection	3,672,089	3.2–4.3 million	83,893	23,317	2.78	71.7
2045	projection	3,735,500	3.2–4.4 million	84,484	23,820	2.75	71.8
2046	projection	3,799,358	3.2–4.5 million	85,079	24,331	2.73	72.0
2047	projection	3,863,062	3.2–4.6 million	85,479	24,820	2.70	72.1
2048	projection	3,926,629	3.3–4.7 million	85,746	25,317	2.67	72.3
2049	projection	3,989,946	3.3–4.8 million	86,112	25,843	2.64	72.4
2050	projection	4,052,998	3.3–5.0 million	86,357	26,384	2.62	72.5
2051	projection	4,116,068	3.3–5.1 million	86,509	26,890	2.59	72.7
2052	projection	4,179,185	3.3–5.2 million	86,758	27,436	2.57	72.8
2053	projection	4,241,883	3.4–5.3 million	87,027	27,957	2.54	73.0
2054	projection	4,304,515	3.4–5.5 million	87,315	28,508	2.52	73.1
2055	projection	4,367,376	3.4–5.6 million	87,607	29,042	2.50	73.3
2056	projection	4,429,471	3.4–5.7 million	87,817	29,575	2.48	73.4
2057	projection	4,491,627	3.4–5.9 million	88,096	30,115	2.46	73.6
2058	projection	4,552,984	3.4–6.0 million	88,176	30,641	2.44	73.8
2059	projection	4,614,521	3.4–6.1 million	88,351	31,207	2.42	73.9
2060	projection	4,675,913	3.4–6.3 million	88,598	31,726	2.40	74.0
2061	projection	4,736,623	3.4–6.4 million	88,843	32,269	2.38	74.2
2062	projection	4,796,959	3.4–6.5 million	89,190	32,858	2.37	74.3
2063	projection	4,857,246	3.4–6.7 million	89,656	33,403	2.35	74.5
2064	projection	4,917,721	3.4–6.8 million	90,117	33,937	2.34	74.6
2065	projection	4,978,077	3.4–7.0 million	90,431	34,471	2.32	74.8
2066	projection	5,038,250	3.5–7.2 million	90,720	34,991	2.31	74.9
2067	projection	5,098,442	3.5–7.3 million	91,014	35,510	2.29	75.1
2068	projection	5,158,769	3.5–7.5 million	91,498	36,051	2.28	75.2
2069	projection	5,218,536	3.5–7.7 million	91,745	36,573	2.26	75.3
2070	projection	5,278,343	3.5–7.8 million	92,106	37,064	2.25	75.5
2071	projection	5,338,096	3.5–8.0 million	92,412	37,566	2.23	75.6
2072	projection	5,398,022	3.5–8.2 million	92,831	38,054	2.23	75.8
2073	projection	5,457,643	3.5–8.3 million	93,151	38,580	2.21	75.9
2074	projection	5,517,119	3.5–8.5 million	93,327	39,048	2.20	76.0
2075	projection	5,575,908	3.5–8.7 million	93,425	39,529	2.19	76.2
2076	projection	5,634,992	3.5–8.9 million	93,716	39,983	2.18	76.3
2077	projection	5,693,455	3.5–9.1 million	93,868	40,442	2.17	76.5
2078	projection	5,752,223	3.5–9.2 million	94,044	40,932	2.16	76.6
2079	projection	5,810,388	3.5–9.4 million	94,224	41,477	2.15	76.8
2080	projection	5,868,233	3.5–9.6 million	94,308	41,969	2.14	76.9
2081	projection	5,925,510	3.5–9.8 million	94,267	42,484	2.13	77.1
2082	projection	5,982,476	3.4–10.0 million	94,164	43,074	2.11	77.2
2083	projection	6,038,694	3.4–10.3 million	94,130	43,627	2.10	77.4
2084	projection	6,094,294	3.4–10.5 million	94,076	44,228	2.09	77.5
2085	projection	6,148,808	3.4–10.7 million	94,049	44,852	2.08	77.7
2086	projection	6,202,288	3.4–10.9 million	94,014	45,487	2.07	77.8
2087	projection	6,255,728	3.4–11.1 million	93,922	46,152	2.06	77.9
2088	projection	6,308,820	3.4–11.3 million	93,921	46,832	2.06	78.1
2089	projection	6,361,350	3.4–11.6 million	93,966	47,551	2.05	78.2
2090	projection	6,412,336	3.3–11.8 million	93,960	48,320	2.04	78.4
2091	projection	6,462,644	3.3–12.0 million	93,898	49,132	2.03	78.5
2092	projection	6,512,030	3.3–12.2 million	93,952	49,939	2.02	78.7
2093	projection	6,560,670	3.3–12.5 million	94,096	50,803	2.02	78.8
2094	projection	6,608,801	3.3–12.7 million	94,016	51,659	2.01	78.9
2095	projection	6,656,031	3.3–12.9 million	93,980	52,508	2.00	79.0
2096	projection	6,703,203	3.3–13.1 million	93,956	53,363	2.00	79.2
2097	projection	6,749,297	3.3–13.4 million	94,074	54,213	1.99	79.3
2098	projection	6,794,579	3.3–13.7 million	94,084	55,014	1.98	79.5
2099	projection	6,838,303	3.2–13.9 million	94,088	55,816	1.98	79.6
2100	projection	6,881,647	3.2–14.2 million	94,115	56,598	1.97	79.8

Show the numbers: Gabon, mid-2026, by single year of age

Gabon: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	34,142	33,630
1	33,791	33,306
2	33,569	33,098
3	33,439	32,970
4	33,356	32,916
5	33,232	32,820
6	33,056	32,641
7	32,734	32,331
8	32,194	31,804
9	31,546	31,174
10	30,808	30,456
11	30,066	29,746
12	29,473	29,184
13	28,944	28,686
14	28,365	28,136
15	27,553	27,355
16	26,518	26,352
17	25,492	25,346
18	24,642	24,496
19	23,984	23,828
20	23,396	23,219
21	22,804	22,607
22	22,168	21,972
23	21,514	21,342
24	20,853	20,708
25	20,234	20,101
26	19,690	19,535
27	19,278	19,062
28	19,028	18,712
29	18,874	18,435
30	18,888	18,305
31	19,074	18,334
32	19,311	18,411
33	19,456	18,387
34	19,494	18,252
35	19,484	18,088
36	19,420	17,893
37	19,302	17,664
38	19,086	17,362
39	18,731	16,950
40	18,312	16,502
41	17,863	16,051
42	17,380	15,586
43	16,830	15,074
44	16,222	14,520
45	15,559	13,928
46	14,856	13,305
47	14,184	12,720
48	13,516	12,151
49	12,842	11,583
50	12,176	11,027
51	11,532	10,491
52	10,932	10,001
53	10,363	9,546
54	9,787	9,078
55	9,214	8,608
56	8,668	8,162
57	8,162	7,752
58	7,690	7,374
59	7,246	7,020
60	6,814	6,672
61	6,393	6,330
62	5,999	6,008
63	5,625	5,704
64	5,257	5,402
65	4,896	5,099
66	4,549	4,800
67	4,214	4,506
68	3,896	4,226
69	3,599	3,964
70	3,324	3,718
71	3,064	3,479
72	2,818	3,251
73	2,585	3,030
74	2,363	2,814
75	2,152	2,604
76	1,932	2,350
77	1,706	2,088
78	1,532	1,902
79	1,383	1,733
80	1,214	1,544
81	1,055	1,362
82	910	1,193
83	780	1,038
84	663	897
85	558	768
86	466	651
87	385	548
88	312	452
89	246	364
90	190	286
91	143	222
92	106	169
93	78	128
94	56	94
95	40	68
96	28	48
97	18	32
98	12	22
99	8	14
100+	12	23

GAB · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Gabon, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

GAB · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Gabon

In Gabon the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 1,473,380 of them.

100 aged 15–64

62 children

7 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

GAB · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Gabon, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Gabon gains 1,180 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 837 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 100 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 19,973 (2012) and the most it lost was 0 (1950).

In 2024, 449,746 people living in Gabon had been born in another country, 18 of every 100 people there, against 13 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

GAB · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Gabon

Of every 100 babies born in Gabon in 2023, 16 had a mother under 20, 66 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 18 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 18 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
18 · 63 · 19

2023
16 · 66 · 18

2050 · projected
11 · 71 · 18

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 68,745
Average age when women have a baby: 28.5 years; 28.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 92; 107 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Gabon by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	460	703	707	468	209	45
15–19	2,119	4,719	9,045	10,455	9,259	4,562
20–24	3,464	6,019	10,865	16,058	21,873	19,295
25–29	2,893	4,761	9,056	15,841	21,807	25,764
30–34	2,503	3,881	7,023	13,540	17,291	23,166
35–39	1,753	2,788	4,026	9,138	12,815	17,634
40–44	821	1,299	1,677	2,955	2,832	3,318
45–49	166	240	235	287	268	327
50–54	10	11	7	3	3	4
All babies	14,189	24,421	42,641	68,745	86,357	94,115

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

GAB · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Gabon

Of the 65.1 years a baby born in Gabon in 2021 could expect, about 56.3 would be lived in full health (95% range 55.4–57.1). The years in less than full health come to 8.8, below the world's 9.5: shorter lives leave fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

57.4 in full health, 10.5 not: 67.9 years

Men

55.3 in full health, 7.4 not: 62.7 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 57.4 healthy years of 67.9. Men: 55.3 of 62.7.

GAB · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Gabon

At the end of 2025, Gabon was hosting 252 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.1 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad252
Gabon nationals abroad1,386

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 50 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Gabon living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 7 people asked for asylum in Gabon for the first time; 226 people from Gabon asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Gabon whose claims were decided that year, 26 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

GAB · of every 100 people

How people live in Gabon

Of every 100 people in Gabon in 2025, 61 lived in a city, 22 in a town or suburb and 17 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

4.9 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 31.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

GAB · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Gabon went in school

Of every 100 adults in Gabon in 2020, 9 never went to school and 21 finished upper secondary or went further.

9 never went to school 14 some primary 35 finished primary 21 finished lower secondary 9 finished upper secondary 12 studied after school

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 14.6 of every 100 women and 9.2 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 2.2 and 3.1.

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2075; the ones who finished upper secondary are still growing in 2100.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

GAB · cities · 2025

Cities in Gabon

Gabon had 6 cities in 2025, home to 1.6 million people. The largest, Libreville, holds 36 of every 100 people in Gabon.

Libreville921,216
Franceville294,863
Moanda115,714
Port-Gentil101,485
Oyem90,307
Point Denis63,285

How to read this: the 6 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Gabon are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.