with less than half the population having access to clean drinking water and 7.9% of children dying before the age of five.

Since Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony, Spanish is the main official language. French and as of lc=y 2010 Portuguese have also been made official. It is one of the two countries in Africa (the other being the partially recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) and the only sovereign country in the same continent where Spanish is an official