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Key facts
- Currency: Guinean franc
- Capital city: Conakry
- Region: Western Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 245,720 km²
- Population: 13,859,341
- Political Leader: Alpha Condé (President)
Latest news (see all)
UNESCO works with the States Parties of Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea to support the process of removing the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve from the List of World Heritage in Danger
Read: UNESCO World Heritage Centre News
2024-04-16
Russian companies interested in cooperation with Guinea -- ambassador
Read: TASS News Agency
2024-03-29
Italy's migrant detention centers in spotlight after death of Guinean and calls to close them down
Read: The Washington Times
2024-03-09
Italy's migrant detention centers in spotlight after death of Guinean and calls to close them down
Read: ABC News
2024-03-09
Metrics
General information
Business
| Expense | 9.43 % of GDP |
| GDP | 20,999,200,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 10.49 annual % |
| Self-employed | 81.85 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 10.84 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 5.40 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 79.20 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 146,380.00 km² |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 4,537.90 kt |
| Fertility rate | 4.40 births per woman |
| Forest area | 61,490 km² |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 1,868.20 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 13.90 years |
| Methane emissions | 16,813.30 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 6,822.44 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 7,005,320 |
| Male Population | 6,854,020 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 65.53 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 244,206.00 km² |
| Rural population | 8,638,804 |
| Urban land area | 1,390.66 km² |
| Urban population | 5,220,537 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 1.47 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 34.42 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 9.99 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 46.84 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 4.04 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.49 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 0.30 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 59 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 7.00 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 46.81 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 34.68 % of population |
| Net migration | -4,000 |
| Press freedom | 2.34 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 13,000 |
| Democracy score | 3.14 |
| Democracy type | Authoritarian |
| Military expenditure | 2.04 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 29.63 % |
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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
