Gabon

Gabon - so nice. It sounds abit like gibbon! Ho ho ho, how amusing. Yet when we looked into this country we discovered that it is infact divine, with its great ruler El Omar Hadj Bongo, or Omar Bongo for short, and its lovely capital city Libreville. And it contains 25% of the worlds manganese aswell. So nice. Imagine taking French tennis player Guy Forget to Gabon where he could have sex with Omar Bongo. The it Would be Guy-Bonking Gabon King. So very very nice.

Population: 1,225,853 (July 1999 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 33% (male 205,076; female 205,198)
15-64 years: 61% (male 376,181; female 370,479)
65 years and over: 6% (male 34,078; female 34,841) (1999 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.48% (1999 est.)

Birth rate: 27.89 births/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Death rate: 13.07 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.98 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (1999 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 83.1 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 56.98 years
male: 53.98 years
female: 60.08 years (1999 est.)

Total fertility rate: 3.77 children born/woman (1999 est.)