Country comparison Guinea-Bissau : United States

General information

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Region:	Western Africa	North America
Area:	36,130 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Portuguese	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1974 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bissau	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Population:	1,968,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	54.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 57 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 61 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 18.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	34.56 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.43 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.72 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Political stability:	48	63
Civil rights:	17	81
Health:	6	71
Climate:	52	66
Cost of Living:	59	38
Popularity:	23	67

Economy

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	0.25 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	40.41 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	45.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	760 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	GNB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,432 M US$	0.73 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	1,498 M US$	0.76 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	233 M US$	0.12 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	439 M US$	0.22 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	GNB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,400 km	2.24 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	8	0.004	3,627	0.011
Airports:	8	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	GNB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	36.27 m kWh	18,429.90 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	39.00 m kWh	19,817.09 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	310,000.00 t	157.52 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
International dialing:	+245	+1
Internet domain:	.gw	.us

	GNB total	GNB per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Mobile cellulars:	1,913,858	972	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	90	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	551,039	280	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	2,383	1	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.00	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.20	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	1.23 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	3.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	73.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	9.3 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Guinea-Bissau and United States

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Daytime temperatures:	33.5 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.9 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	25.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	69 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.1	7.2

Native languages

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Crioulo:	36.4 %	n/a
Fula:	16.6 %	n/a
Balante:	14.6 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Portuguese:	8.1 %	0.2 %
Malinke:	6.9 %	n/a
Bambara:	5.1 %	n/a
Mandyako:	4.9 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	7.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Guinea-Bissau	United States
Christianity:	22.1 %	78.5 %
Islam:	45.1 %	1.1 %
Animism:	14.9 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	2.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	15.9 %	15.3 %