Guinea Bissau

  • President:José Mário Vaz
  • Prime Minister:Aristides Gomes
  • Capital city:Bissau
  • Languages:Crioulo 90.4%, Portuguese 27.1% (official), French 5.1%, English 2.9%, other 2.4% note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2008 est.)
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:1,861,283 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:28,120 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:724 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:1.3 (2017)
  • GINI index:50.7 (2010)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:176 (2017)