Guinea Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $1,546 billion (1984), $300 per capita; real growth rate 1.3% (1984 est.)

Natural resources: bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold, uranium, hydroelectric power, fish

Agriculture: cash crops—coffee, bananas, palm products, peanuts, citrus fruits, pineapples; staple food crops—cassava, rice, millet, corn, sweet potatoes, livestock raised in some areas

Major industries: bauxite mining, alumina, diamond mining, light manufacturing and processing industries

Electric power: 100,600 kW capacity (1985); 220 million kWh produced (1985), 38 kWh per capita

Exports $537 million (f.o.b., 1984 est.); bauxite, alumina, diamonds, coffee, pineapples, bananas, palm kernels

Imports: $403 million (f.o.b., 1984 est.); petroleum products, metals, machinery and transport equipment, foodstuffs, textiles

Major trade partners: imports—France, USSR, US; exports—US, USSR, France, Spain

Budget: (1983) public revenues $444 million; current expenditures, $330 million; development expenditures, $104 million

Monetary conversion rate 25.1 sylis=US$I (December 1984)

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding Guinea on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Guinea 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Guinea 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.