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Guinea-Bissau

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Guinea-Bissau is a country. The capital city is Bissau, located in the Western Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 28,120 km², a population of 2,153,339 people and uses the currency West African CFA franc. The President is Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

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currency: West African CFA franc
capital city: Bissau
region: Western Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 28,120 km²
population: 2,153,339 people
political leader: Umaro Sissoco Embaló (President)

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expense: 13.27 % of GDP
GDP: 2,048,348,108.36 current US$
inflation: 9.39 annual %
self-employed workers: 78.32 % of total employment
tax revenue: 8.57 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.65 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 77.80 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 4,000 people
democracy score: 1.98
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 32.50 % of population
military expenditure: 1.46 % of GDP
net migration: -1,400 people
press freedom: 2.53
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 9.80 %
birth rate: 30.61 per 1,000 people
death rate: 8.60 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 68.82 current US$
health expenditure: 8.22 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.59 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.00 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 60
suicide mortality rate: 7.00 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 8,151.10 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 0.35 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 37.40 % of population
fertility rate: 3.92 births per woman
forest area: 19,631 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 0.00 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 3.00 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 14.90
methane emissions: 2.16 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.52 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 1,089,544 people
male population: 1,063,795 people
renewable energy consumption: 87.40 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 33,293.42 km²
rural population: 1,174,302 people
urban land area: 196.26 km²
urban population: 979,037 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.24 % of total population

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