The Gambia country profile - BBC News
Web12 April 2023. The Gambia is one of Africa's smallest countries and, unlike many of its west African neighbours, has enjoyed long spells of stability since independence. President Yahya Jammeh...
Gambia Country Report 2024 - BTI 2022
WebThe Gambia remains one of the poorest countries in the world, according to most metrics. In 2021, The Gambia ranked 174th (out of 191 countries) in the Human Development Index, with no significant improvement over the past five years.
COVID-19 Elevated Poverty in The Gambia - World Bank Group
WebBANJUL, November 9, 2022 – The Gambia’s poverty rate has climbed to 53.4 percent largely due to COVID-19 according to The Gambia Poverty and Gender Assessment 2022 report. The report states that before the COVID-19 induced crisis the national poverty rate declined from 48.6 percent in 2015 to 45.8 percent in 2019.
The Gambia Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
WebApr 10, 2024 · Stretching 450 km along the Gambia river, the country is surrounded by Senegal, except for a 60-km Atlantic Ocean front. The country is one of the smallest in Africa, covering about 10.7 thousand square kilometers and has a population of 2.5 million. ... The Nafa Program was successfully scaled up in August 2022, to an additional 17 …
Poverty Trends in The Gambia: A Tale of Two Crises - World Bank …
WebJun 26, 2023 · Data from the 2020/21 household survey showed that more than half of Gambians (53.4% or 1.1 million) were poor – an increase of 4.8 percentage points from the 2015 poverty levels. The pandemic reversed gains registered prior to 2020.
Gambia - Human Development Reports
WebBased on these estimates, 41.7 percent of the population in Gambia (1,101 thousand people in 2021) is multidimensionally poor while an additional 28.0 percent is classified as vulnerable to multidimensional poverty (740 thousand people in 2021).
Country Profile - Poverty and Inequality Platform
WebCountry Profile. 2017 PPP. Gambia, The. Take a Tour. Select poverty line. $2.15. $3.65. $6.85. View Data Sources. Key indicators (most recent values): Poverty rate at $2.15 a day (2017 PPP) (% population): 17.24% in 2020. Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population) 48.60% in 2015.
The Gambia: Development news, research, data | World Bank
WebThe Gambia is a small, fragile country in West Africa. Stretching 450 km along the Gambia River, the country (all 10,689 square kilometers of it) is surrounded by Senegal, except for a 60-km Atlantic Ocean front. The country has a population of 2.1 million.
The Gambia Poverty and Gender Assessment 2022: Securing a
WebNov 10, 2022 · The report states that before the COVID-19 induced crisis the national poverty rate declined from 48.6 percent in 2015 to 45.8 percent in 2019. Poverty rates remains more of a rural phenomenon – 7...
THE GAMBIA Key conditions and challenges - World Bank
WebData from the 2020 household survey showed that poor households spent 65 percent of their in- comeonfood–over10percentagepoints higher than non-poor households – and thefoodpricespikeinApril2022,reaching 15.5percent,thusexposingthepoortothe risk of sliding deeper into poverty. Recent developments.
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