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Country (long form)	Gabonese Republic
Capital	Libreville
Total Area	103,346.81 sq mi 267,667.00 sq km (slightly smaller than Colorado)
Population	1,221,175 (July 2001 est.) note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Estimated Population in 2050	1,813,985
Languages	French (official), Fang, Myene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi
Literacy	63.2% total, 73.7% male, 53.3% female (1995 est.)
Religions	Christian 55%-75%, animist , Muslim less than 1%
Life Expectancy	48.47 male, 50.75 female (2001 est.)
Government Type	republic; multiparty presidential regime (opposition parties legalized in 1990)
Currency	1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
GDP (per capita)	$6,300 (2000 est.)
Industry	food and beverage; textile; lumbering and plywood; cement; petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, uranium, and gold mining; chemicals; ship repair
Agriculture	cocoa, coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber; cattle; okoume (a tropical softwood); fish
Arable Land	1%
Natural Resources	petroleum, manganese, uranium, gold, timber, iron ore, hydropower

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