Getting credit, legal rights index in Gabon
Gabon: Getting credit, legal rights index was 6 in 2012. ▲ Rising
Getting credit, legal rights index in Gabon, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Gabon recorded 6 for getting credit, legal rights index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 100.0% over ten years.
That places Gabon 15th out of 51 countries with data for 2012, putting it in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010s | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Gabon
- 15 Benin 6 compare
- 15 Burkina Faso 6 compare
- 15 Cameroon 6 compare
- 15 Central African Republic 6 compare
- 15 Chad 6 compare
- 15 Comoros 6 compare
- 15 Congo 6 compare
- 15 Côte d'Ivoire 6 compare
- 15 Equatorial Guinea 6 compare
- 15 Guinea 6 compare
- 15 Guinea-Bissau 6 compare
- 15 Lesotho 6 compare
- 15 Mali 6 compare
- 15 Mauritius 6 compare
- 15 Niger 6 compare
- 15 Senegal 6 compare
- 15 Eswatini 6 compare
- 15 Togo 6 compare
More private sector data for Gabon
- Merchandise trade 72.8% (2025)
- Food imports 15.7% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 76.4% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 4.00 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 0.9% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 17.8% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 11.60 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 4,473 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.5414 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -10.77 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is getting credit, legal rights index in Gabon?
- Getting credit, legal rights index in Gabon was 6 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest getting credit, legal rights index recorded in Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 6 in 2011.
- What is the lowest getting credit, legal rights index recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 3 in 2005.
- How does Gabon rank for getting credit, legal rights index?
- Gabon ranks 15th out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is getting credit, legal rights index rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gabon data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Getting credit, legal rights index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The strength of legal rights index measures the degree to which collateral and bankruptcy laws protect the rights of borrowers and lenders and thus facilitate lending. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.