Guinea 
Facts
Population: 9,947,814 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 44.3% (male 2,226,414/female 2,183,153)
15-64 years: 52.5% (male 2,611,833/female 2,610,773)
65 years and over: 3.2% (male 138,392/female 177,249) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.62% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 41.53 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 15.33 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.781 male(s)/female
total population: 1.001 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 88.58 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 93.68 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 83.32 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 49.65 years
male: 48.5 years
female: 50.84 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 5.75 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 3.2% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 9,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Guinean(s)
adjective: Guinean.
Ethnic groups: Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10%.
Religions: Muslim 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefs 7%.
Languages: French (official); note - each ethnic group has its own language.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 29.5%
male: 42.6%
female: 18.1% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $20.16 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 23.7%
industry: 36.1%
services: 40.2% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 3.7 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 76%
industry and services: 24% (2006 est.).
Population below poverty line: 47% (2006 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.9%
highest 10%: 41% (2006).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 29% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues: $342.3 million
expenditures: $556.7 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: rice, coffee, pineapples, palm kernels, cassava (tapioca), bananas, sweet potatoes; cattle, sheep, goats; timber.
Industries: bauxite, gold, diamonds, iron; alumina refining; light manufacturing, and agricultural processing.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 840 million kWh
note: excludes electricity generated at interior mining sites (2006).
Electricity - consumption: 832.9 million kWh (2006).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2006).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2006).
Exports: $615.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: bauxite, alumina, gold, diamonds, coffee, fish, agricultural products.
Exports - partners: Russia 14.6%, South Korea 11.3%, Spain 10.2%, Ukraine 7.9%, US 6.1%, Ireland 6%, France 5.7%, Germany 5%, Belgium 4.5% (2005).
Imports: $730 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment, textiles, grain and other foodstuffs.
Imports - partners: China 8.5%, US 7.3%, France 7.2%, Cote d'Ivoire 5.2%, Italy 4.7%, Belgium 4.1% (2005).
Debt - external: $3.02 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $212.2 million (2006).
Currency (code): Guinean franc (GNF).
Exchange rates: Guinean francs per US dollar - 5,350 (2006), 3,644.3 (2005), 2,225 (2004), 1,984.9 (2003), 1,975.8 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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Rarely do Africans seeking to sneak into Europe receive respect, or even a dignified departure home, if caught. But two teenage stowaways from Guinea hoping to enter Belgium recently got a ceremonial return home. Unfortunately, they were dead.
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