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NOTE: 1) The information regarding Guinea-Bissau on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Guinea-Bissau People 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Guinea-Bissau People 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
1,792,338 (July 2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 152
[see also: Population country ranks ]
noun: Bissau-Guinean(s)
adjective: Bissau-Guinean
Fulani 28.5%, Balanta 22.5%, Mandinga 14.7%, Papel 9.1%, Manjaco 8.3%, Beafada 3.5%, Mancanha 3.1%, Bijago 2.1%, Felupe 1.7%, Mansoanca 1.4%, Balanta Mane 1%, other 1.8%, none 2.2% (2008 est.)
Crioulo (lingua franca), Portuguese (official; largely used as a second or third language), Pular (a Fula language), Mandingo
Muslim 45.1%, Christian 22.1%, animist 14.9%, none 2%, unspecified 15.9% (2008 est.)
Guinea-Bissau’s young and growing population is sustained by high fertility; approximately 60% of the population is under the age of 25. Its large reproductive-age population and total fertility rate of more than 4 children per woman offsets the country’s high infant and maternal mortality rates. The latter is among the world’s highest because of the prevalence of early childbearing, a lack of birth spacing, the high percentage of births outside of health care facilities, and a shortage of medicines and supplies.
Guinea-Bissau’s history of political instability, a civil war, and several coups (the latest in 2012) have resulted in a fragile state with a weak economy, high unemployment, rampant corruption, widespread poverty, and thriving drug and child trafficking. With the country lacking educational infrastructure, school funding and materials, and qualified teachers, and with the cultural emphasis placed on religious education, parents frequently send boys to study in residential Koranic schools (daaras) in Senegal and The Gambia. They often are extremely deprived and are forced into street begging or agricultural work by marabouts (Muslim religious teachers), who enrich themselves at the expense of the children. Boys who leave their marabouts often end up on the streets of Dakar or other large Senegalese towns and are vulnerable to even worse abuse.
Some young men lacking in education and job prospects become involved in the flourishing international drug trade. Local drug use and associated violent crime are growing.
0-14 years: 39.03% (male 349,256/female 350,327)
[see also: Age structure - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 20.18% (male 179,389/female 182,242)
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25-54 years: 32.77% (male 292,736/female 294,526)
[see also: Age structure - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 4.57% (male 32,156/female 49,761)
[see also: Age structure - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 3.46% (male 22,574/female 39,371) (2017 est.)
A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
For additional information, please see the entry for Population pyramid on the Definitions and Notes page under the References tab.
total dependency ratio: 80.4
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youth dependency ratio: 75.2
[see also: Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio country ranks ]
elderly dependency ratio: 5.2
[see also: Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio country ranks ]
potential support ratio: 19.3 (2015 est.)
[see also: Dependency ratios - potential support ratio country ranks ]
total: 20.1 years
[see also: Median age - total country ranks ]
male: 19.7 years
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female: 20.6 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Median age - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 189
1.86% (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 53
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32.5 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 30
[see also: Birth rate country ranks ]
13.9 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 6
[see also: Death rate country ranks ]
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 84
[see also: Net migration rate country ranks ]
approximately one-fifth of the population lives in the capital city of Bissau along the Atlantic coast; the remainder is distributed among the eight other, mainly rural, regions
urban population: 50.8% of total population (2017)
[see also: Urbanization - urban population country ranks ]
rate of urbanization: 3.69% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
[see also: Urbanization - rate of urbanization country ranks ]
BISSAU (capital) 492,000 (2015)
at birth: 1.01 male(s)/female
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0-14 years: 1 male(s)/female
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15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 0.62 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 0.6 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 65 years and over country ranks ]
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
[see also: Sex ratio - total population country ranks ]
549 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
[see also: Maternal mortality ratio country ranks ]
total: 85.7 deaths/1,000 live births
[see also: Infant mortality rate - total country ranks ]
male: 95.1 deaths/1,000 live births
[see also: Infant mortality rate - male country ranks ]
female: 76 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
[see also: Infant mortality rate - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 4
total population: 51 years
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - total population country ranks ]
male: 48.9 years
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - male country ranks ]
female: 53.1 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 223
[See also: Healthy Life Expectancy ]
[See also: Health Performance ]
4.09 children born/woman (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 32
[see also: Total fertility rate country ranks ]
16% (2014)
[see also: Contraceptive prevalence rate country ranks ]
5.6% of GDP (2014)
country comparison to the world: 123
[see also: Health expenditures country ranks ]
0.08 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
[see also: Physicians density country ranks ]
1 beds/1,000 population (2009)
[see also: Hospital bed density country ranks ]
improved:
urban: 98.8% of population
rural: 60.3% of population
total: 79.3% of population
unimproved:
urban: 1.2% of population
rural: 39.7% of population
total: 20.7% of population (2015 est.)
improved:
urban: 33.5% of population
rural: 8.5% of population
total: 20.8% of population
unimproved:
urban: 66.5% of population
rural: 91.5% of population
total: 79.2% of population (2015 est.)
3.1% (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 20
[see also: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
36,000 (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 62
[see also: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS country ranks ]
2,000 (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 52
[see also: HIV/AIDS - deaths country ranks ]
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
animal contact disease: rabies (2016)
9.5% (2016)
country comparison to the world: 144
[see also: Obesity - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
17% (2014)
country comparison to the world: 35
[see also: Children under the age of 5 years underweight country ranks ]
2.2% of GDP (2013)
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 59.9%
[see also: Literacy - total population country ranks ]
male: 71.8%
[see also: Literacy - male country ranks ]
female: 48.3% (2015 est.)
[see also: Literacy - female country ranks ]
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b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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