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Gabon began producing an electronic ID card with a 14-character personal ID number in 2024 and adopted a 2025 roadmap for a national digital identity system. CEMAC's central bank is only studying a CBDC.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Gabon
- Program
- CNIE with NIP (DGDI)
- Status
- Being built or piloted
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
President Oligui Nguema announced on 24 June 2024 that production of the electronic ID card (CNIE) had begun; its chip holds the digital identity and a 14-character NIP issued after biometric enrolment. A June 2025 workshop adopted a roadmap covering the biometric population register, a national digital identity system and civil registry, to run from Q1 2026.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Research
The BEAC (central bank of the six-country CEMAC zone) set up a working group on a central bank digital currency in September 2023. No launch date or issuance decision has been published in the sources found.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2024-06-24Rolling it out
Gabon announced production of electronic ID cards with a chip and 14-character personal ID number. Osiris ↗
UN and WHO
How Gabon has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 63.9 · rank 116 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 2
Sovereignty score
How the 0 adds up
- 0No tracked actions either way.
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