Gabon
4.2 points below what its income predicts · expected 39.0% at its GDP per capita
Gabon ranks 6 of 37 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: 34.8% of its task time is at least partly delegable, below the world figure of 35.2% and 13.9 points below high-income countries.
| Indicator | Gabon | Rank in region | Highest in region | Region | High income | World | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegability | |||||||
| ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3) | 34.8 | 6 of 37 | Mauritius (43.7) | 25.4 | 48.7 | 35.2 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3) | 2.7 | 3 of 37 | Mauritius (3.7) | 1.4 | 3.7 | 2.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADIs: expected share of working time delegable | 29.5 | 6 of 37 | Mauritius (34.4) | 23.7 | 37.4 | 29.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| Adoption | |||||||
| AI use per working-age adult (index) | – | – | Mauritius (1.61) | 0.31 | 2.80 | 1.53 | Anthropic Economic Index |
| Context | |||||||
| GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $) | 18,986 | 3 of 37 | Seychelles (30,639) | 6,686 | 56,341 | 27,620 | World Bank WDI |
| Informal employment, % of total employment | 86.1 | 12 of 34 | Seychelles (8.9) | 84.1 | 12.5 | 50.2 | ILOSTAT |
Region: the 37 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa in the atlas (World Bank regions). Delegability rows are employment-weighted means; adoption and context rows are simple means over countries with data. For informality, rank 1 is the lowest. With equal weights inside reported groups, the preregistered sensitivity check, Gabon’s ADI is 34.6%.
Gabon against the delegation divide
Each flag is a country; the dashed line is what GDP per capita alone predicts. Sub-Saharan Africa keeps its colours, the rest is grey. Gabon is 4.2 points below what its income predicts.
Balam Labs · Agent Delegability Index v2026.1 · balamlabs.org/adi
Who works in Gabon, and how delegable their tasks are
Service and sales workers and professionals supply 52% of Gabon’s delegable task time while employing 40% of its workers.
Hover a block to read one group. Shade: the group’s ADI, light 10% to dark 85%.
| Major group | Employment, Gabon | World | ADI of group, Gabon | Points of ADI, Gabon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Managers | 2.8% | 3.9% | 80.4 | 2.3 |
| 4 · Clerical support workers | 6.5% | 5.0% | 73.7 | 4.8 |
| 2 · Professionals | 10.4% | 11.2% | 58.5 | 6.1 |
| 3 · Technicians and associate professionals | 4.0% | 6.7% | 54.7 | 2.2 |
| 5 · Service and sales workers | 29.3% | 17.8% | 41.0 | 12.0 |
| 8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 5.3% | 7.6% | 23.8 | 1.3 |
| 6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 13.7% | 21.9% | 15.9 | 2.2 |
| 7 · Craft and related trades workers | 12.2% | 10.8% | 17.0 | 2.1 |
| 9 · Elementary occupations | 15.8% | 15.2% | 12.3 | 1.9 |
Barriers, weighted by its jobs
The largest gap with the world is accountability: 23% of task weight against 26% worldwide, a lighter brake on agents.
| Barrier | Share of task weight | GAB | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical presence | 73% | 72% | |
| Accountability | 23% | 26% | |
| Trust and care | 29% | 26% | |
| Access to systems | 57% | 59% |
Dashed tick: world, weighting the same tasks by world employment. A task can carry more than one barrier.
Delegable work and actual AI use
The Anthropic Economic Index has no usage figure for Gabon; it covers 101 of the 146 countries.
Within its region
Gabon sits between Cameroon (38.3%) and Cabo Verde (34.3%); Mauritius leads the region at 43.7% and Burundi closes it at 14.7%.
| Country | ADI | % |
|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | 43.7 | |
| Seychelles | 43.6 | |
| Namibia | 39.5 | |
| Somalia | 39.2 | |
| Cameroon | 38.3 | |
| Gabon | 34.8 | |
| Cabo Verde | 34.3 | |
| Eswatini | 33.9 | |
| The Gambia | 33.2 | |
| Malawi | 32.5 | |
| Botswana | 32.0 | |
| Equatorial Guinea | 30.8 | |
| Ghana | 30.3 | |
| Togo | 30.0 | |
| Nigeria | 29.6 | |
| Kenya | 29.6 | |
| Guinea | 28.8 | |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 28.4 | |
| Benin | 28.1 | |
| Sudan | 27.9 | |
| Angola | 27.4 | |
| Burkina Faso | 25.5 | |
| DR Congo | 24.3 | |
| Chad | 24.2 | |
| Niger | 23.5 | |
| Mali | 23.3 | |
| Zambia | 22.8 | |
| Zimbabwe | 22.2 | |
| Guinea-Bissau | 22.0 | |
| Rwanda | 21.8 | |
| Uganda | 21.4 | |
| Ethiopia | 20.6 | |
| Lesotho | 20.5 | |
| Tanzania | 19.8 | |
| Madagascar | 19.7 | |
| Mozambique | 17.9 | |
| Burundi | 14.7 |
Dashed line: regional employment-weighted mean, 25.4%. World: 35.2%.
Espinal Maya, Cristian, and Santiago Jiménez Londoño. 2026. ADI v2026.1: Agent Delegability Index data, code and MCP server. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23552918. Record: Gabon (GAB), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/GAB
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