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Republic of Guinea-Bissau
National name: Républica da Guiné-Bissau
President: Kumba Ialá (2000)
Prime Minister: Caetano N'Tchama (2000)
Area: 13,948 sq. mi. (36,120 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 1,234,555 (average annual rate of natural increase: 2.31%); birth rate: 38.2/1000; infant mortality rate: 109.5/1000; density per sq. mi.: 89
Capital and largest city (1991 est.): Bissau, 200,000
Monetary unit: Guinea-Bissau peso
Languages: Portuguese Criolo, African languages
Ethnicity/race: African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1%
Religions: traditional, 65%; Islam, 30%; Christian, 5%
Literacy rate: 37% (1991 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $1.2 billion; $1,000 per capita. Real growth rate: 3.5%. Inflation: 25.6% (1997). Unemployment: n.a. Labor force: 480,000 Arable land: 11%. Agriculture: rice, corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish. Industry: agricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks. Natural resources: fish, timber, phosphates, bauxite, unexploited deposits of petroleum. Exports: $25.8 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.): cashews, fish, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber. Imports: $63 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.): foodstuffs, transport equipment, petroleum products, machinery and equipment. Major trading partners: Spain, India, Thailand, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, U.S.
