1) Government
| Capital city | Malabo | |
| General government final consumption expenditure > annual % growth | -4.64 % | [124th of 147] |
| General government final consumption expenditure > constant LCU | 28800000000 | |
| General government final consumption expenditure > current US$ | 95,590,700 $ | [155th of 169] |
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Legislative branch > A note
opposition parties have refused to take up their seats in the House to protest widespread irregularities in the 1999 legislative elections |
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| Parliamentary seats > Female | 5% | [113rd of 143] |
| political parties > Dominant party | • | |
| Procedures to register property > number | 6 | [69th of 167] |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % | 18 % | [67th of 174] |
| Start-up procedures to register a business > number | 20 | [1st of 171] |
| Status | pseudo-democracy | |
| Time required to build a warehouse > days | 156 days | [104th of 168] |
| Time required to enforce a contract > days | 553 days | [68th of 171] |
| Time required to register property > days | 23 days | [126th of 167] |
| Time required to start a business > days | 136 days | [9th of 171] |
| Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours | 212 hours | [98th of 169] |
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
in 2002, ICJ ruled on an equidistance settlement of Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea, but a dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River and imprecisely defined maritime coordinates in the ICJ decision delay final delimitation; UN urges Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane and lesser islands and to create a maritime boundary in the hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay |
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| UN membership date | 12 Nov. 1968 | |
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United Nations mission
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5640.htm http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/7221.htm |
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| Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood | Kalorama Triangle | |
Democracy
| Electoral system | party list | |
| Electoral system type | proportional | |
| Female candidacy | 1,963 | [27th of 161] |
| Female ministers | 9.4% | [82nd of 125] |
| Female parliamentarians | 5% | [134th of 157] |
| Female suffrage | 1963 | |
| First female parliamentarian | 1968 (elected) | |
| Gender Parity Index in primary level enrolment | 0.951620998196791 | [105th of 183] |
| Homosexuality laws of the world > Homosexuality laws > Laws against homosexuality | No |
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