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Reports and studies on Gabon published by national and international institutions.
Dated October 2025 and posted online on 15 December 2025 by the CEMAC Commission, this report assesses the economies of the six member states in 2024: Gabon meets only one of the four convergence criteria, the one on inflation, with growth of 3.2 percent and public debt of 72.3 percent of GDP.
Published at the end of 2025, the World Bank's Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) estimates that climate change impacts could reduce Gabon's gross domestic product (GDP) by 3.5 to 5.3 percent a year by 2050 under a business-as-usual scenario.
This World Bank roadmap, dated November 2025, sets out the legal, institutional and technical reforms Gabon needs in order to value its forest carbon on carbon markets and with climate finance providers.
This World Bank policy brief, published in October 2025, summarises the first forest ecosystem accounts compiled for Gabon over 2000 to 2020: the annual value of the services provided by forests is estimated to have risen from US$53.9 billion to US$103 billion.
The World Bank's October 2025 Poverty & Equity Brief recalls that in 2017 about one in three Gabonese lived below the poverty line of US$8.30 a day, and that gaps between urban and rural areas remain wide.
This August 2025 synthesis report brings together the forest ecosystem accounts compiled for six Central African countries, including Gabon, and values the annual services these forests provide at US$1.15 trillion in 2020.
The 2025 edition of the World Bank's economic update estimates Gabon's growth at 2.9 percent in 2024 and devotes its special topic to national wealth, which reached US$105 billion in 2020 according to the report.
The World Bank's eighth CEMAC economic barometer estimates Gabon's growth at 2.9 percent in 2024, the fiscal deficit at 3.7 percent of GDP and public debt at 72.5 percent of GDP, above the regional convergence criterion.
On 13 March 2025, the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) concluded that Gabon had achieved a moderate overall score of 73.5 points in implementing the 2019 EITI Standard.
Published on 14 October 2024, the World Bank's 2024 edition of its Gabon economic update, focused on designing fiscal policies for sustainable forestry, notes growth slowing to 2.3% in 2023, from 3.0% in 2022.
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