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Cooperative Republic of Guyana
President: Bharrat Jagdeo (1999)
Prime Minister: Samuel Hinds (1997)
Area: 83,000 sq. mi. (214,970 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 705,156 (average annual rate of natural increase: 0.92%); birth rate: 18.2/1000; infant mortality rate: 48.6/1000; density per sq. mi.: 8
Capital and largest city (1992 est.): Georgetown, 248,500
Monetary unit: Guyana dollar
Languages: English (official), Amerindian dialects
Ethnicity/race: East Indian 51%, black and mixed 43%, Amerindian 4%, European and Chinese 2%
Religions: Hindu, 34%; Protestant, 18%; Islam, 9%; Roman Catholic, 18%; Anglican, 16%
Literacy rate: 96%
Economic summary GDP/PPP: (1998 est.), $1.8 billion; $2,500 per capita. Real growth rate: –1.8%. Inflation: 4.1%. Unemployment: (1992 est.), 12%. Labor force (1992): 245,492; agriculture, hunting and forestry 30.2%, commerce 16%, manufacturing 11%. Arable land: 2%. Agriculture: sugar, rice, wheat, vegetable oils; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; forest and fishery potential not exploited. Industry: bauxite, sugar, rice milling, timber, fishing (shrimp), textiles, gold mining. Natural resources: bauxite, gold, diamonds, hardwood timber, shrimp, fish. Exports: $593.4 million (1997 est.): sugar, gold, bauxite/alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses. Imports: $641.6 million (1997 est.): manufactures, machinery, petroleum, food. Major trading partners: Canada, U.S., U.K., Netherlands Antilles, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan.
Member of Commonwealth of Nations
