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Gibraltar
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ANNUAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
Population & economic scale
The most recent non-empty observations returned by the World Bank when this snapshot was collected. Read the year on each card: these are annual statistics, not live measurements.
World Bank reporting entity: Gibraltar · 1 of 3 indicators available.
Population
40,126
people
observation
Definition, value & source
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Received value: 40126 people. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division
GDP
Not available
current US$
No observation in this snapshot
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP per capita
Not available
current US$ per person
No observation in this snapshot
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP and GDP per capita use current US dollars, without an inflation or purchasing-power-parity adjustment. Source years can differ. Missing data is not zero; earlier archive figures below are retained as a separate historical reference.
THE REFERENCE FILE
Gibraltar at a glance
These are historical reference facts from the 2025 World Factbook archive. Each estimate keeps its own period; an archive edition does not make every figure a measurement from that year.
Government type
parliamentary democracy (Parliament); self-governing overseas territory of the UK
Population
total: 29,733 (2025 est.) male: 14,923 female: 14,810
GDP (official exchange rate)
$2.044 billion (2014 est.)
Electricity access
electrification - total population: 100% (2022 est.)
Internet users
percent of population: 94% (2016 est.)
THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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Location
Southwestern Europe, bordering the Strait of Gibraltar, which links the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southern coast of Spain
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Capital
name: Gibraltar geographic coordinates: 36 08 N, 5 21 W time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October etymology: from the Spanish derivation of the Arabic jabal tariq , which means "Mountain of Tariq" and refers to the Berber chief who captured the peninsula in A.D. 711
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Economic overview
British territorial high-income economy; Brexit caused significant economic disruption to longstanding financial services, shipping, and tourism industries; ongoing negotiations to rejoin EU Schengen Area; independent taxation authority
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural resources
none
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Agricultural products
none
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Industries
tourism, banking and finance, ship repairing, tobacco
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - partners
Netherlands 38%, France 26%, Cyprus 7%, Poland 7%, Sweden 6% (2023) note: top five export partners based on percentage share of exports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - commodities
refined petroleum, natural gas, ships, cars, scrap iron (2023) note: top five export commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - partners
Italy 26%, Greece 12%, Spain 10%, Netherlands 9%, India 9% (2023) note: top five import partners based on percentage share of imports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - commodities
refined petroleum, crude petroleum, coal tar oil, natural gas, ships (2023) note: top five import commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Climate
Mediterranean with mild winters and warm summers
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Terrain
a narrow coastal lowland borders the Rock of Gibraltar
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Land use
agricultural land: 0% (2022 est.) forest: 0% (2022 est.) other: 100% (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural hazards
occasional droughts; no streams or large bodies of water on the peninsula (all potable water comes from desalination)
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Languages
English (used in schools and for official purposes), Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Religions
Roman Catholic 72.1%, Church of England 7.7%, other Christian 3.8%, Muslim 3.6%, Jewish 2.4%, Hindu 2%, other 1.1%, none 7.1%, unspecified 0.1% (2012 est.)
2012 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Age structure
0-14 years: 20% (male 3,045/female 2,895) 15-64 years: 62.5% (male 9,383/female 9,179) 65 years and over: 17.5% (2024 est.) (male 2,491/female 2,690)
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Urbanization
urban population: 100% of total population (2023) rate of urbanization: 0.45% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
2023, 2015 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 80.9 years (2024 est.) male: 78.1 years female: 83.8 years
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity
installed generating capacity: 50,000 kW (2023 est.) consumption: 213.744 million kWh (2023 est.) transmission/distribution losses: 6.256 million kWh (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity generation sources
fossil fuels: 100% of total installed capacity (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Petroleum
refined petroleum consumption: 91,000 bbl/day (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural gas
consumption: 77.196 million cubic meters (2023 est.) imports: 77.196 million cubic meters (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Carbon dioxide emissions
15.608 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from petroleum and other liquids: 15.458 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from consumed natural gas: 150,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Telephones - mobile cellular
total subscriptions: 36,700 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 98 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
total: 23,000 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 61 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Airports
1 (2025)
2025 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Ports
total ports: 1 (2024) large: 0 medium: 1 small: 0 very small: 0 ports with oil terminals: 1 key ports: Europa Point
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
CURRENCY OBSERVATIONS
Money & exchange rates
The latest verified daily references are separate from the historical country profile. Values are currency units per US$1.
Gibraltar Pound
GIP per US$1
Published reference snapshot; its original observation date is preserved.
1 GIP = US$1.307172
0.74564–0.7663 GIP per US$1 across the displayed observations. The vertical scale follows this range.
View dated observations
| Observation date | GIP per US$1 |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | 0.76501 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 0.76627 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 0.7663 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.76398 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 0.76183 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 0.76528 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 0.76406 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 0.76351 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 0.76436 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 0.75958 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 0.75809 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 0.75678 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 0.7569 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 0.75485 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 0.75012 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 0.75196 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 0.7506 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 0.748 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 0.74621 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 0.74564 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 0.74788 |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 0.74789 |
Daily references are not live execution prices. A check time does not change a source observation date.
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- CIA World Factbook · 2025 archive
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- Oct 6, 2026 · retrieval date, not an observation period
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