Equatorial Guinea

Latest Report

Not Available

Immigration detainees

2019

Not Available

Detained children

2017

227,617

International migrants

2019

1,400,000

Population

2020

Latest Report

Overview

Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

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IMMIGRATION AND DETENTION-RELATED STATISTICS

Total number of immigration detainees by year
Not Available
2019
Total number of detained minors
Not Available
2017
Criminal prison population
500
2015
650
2012
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
63
2015
95
2012
Population
1,400,000
2020
845,000
2015
International migrants
227,617
2019
10,800
2015
International migrants as a percentage of the population
1.3
2015
Refugees
0
2016
Stateless persons
0
2015

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Gross Domestic Product per capita (in USD)
18,918
2014
Unemployment Rate
2014
Net official development assistance (ODA) (in millions USD)
0.6
2014
Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)
138 (Medium)
2015

DOMESTIC LAWS AND POLICIES

Legal tradition
Civil law
2017
Customary law
2017

INTERNATIONAL LAW

International treaties
Ratification Year
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1976
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
2002
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1987
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1987
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1984
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2002
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1992
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1986
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2003
Individual complaints procedure
Acceptance Year
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 1987
1987
CEDAW, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1999 2009
2009
Ratio of complaints procedures accepted
Observation Date
2/6
2017
Regional legal instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 1986
1986
ACRWC, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2002
2002
APRW, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) 2009
2009
Relevant recommendations of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2014
2017
Yes 2014
2017
Yes 2010
2017

INSTITUTIONAL INDICATORS