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Guinea-Bissau: Economy#

Guinea-Bissau is highly dependent on subsistence agriculture, cashew nut exports, and foreign assistance. Two out of three Bissau-Guineans remain below the absolute poverty line. The legal economy is based on farming and fishing, but illegal logging and trafficking in narcotics are also important economic activities. The combination of limited economic prospects, weak institutions, and favorable geography have made this West African country a way station for drugs bound for Europe while trade in illegal logging, food, and fishing is also significant.

Guinea-Bissau has substantial potential for development of mineral resources including phosphates, bauxite, and mineral sands. The country’s climate and soil make it feasible to grow a wide range of cash crops, fruit, vegetables, and tubers; however, cashews generate more than 80% of export receipts and are the main source of income for many rural communities.

With renewed donor support following elections in April-May 2014 and a successful regional bond issuance, the government of Guinea-Bissau made progress paying salaries, settling domestic arrears, and gaining more control over revenues and expenditures, but was deposed by the President in August 2015. A political stalemate since then has resulted in weak governance.

Economic Facts#

GDP (purchasing power parity)$2.851 billion (2016 est.)
$2.72 billion (2015 est.)
$2.596 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate)$1.168 billion (2015 est.)
GDP - real growth rate4.8% (2016 est.)
4.8% (2015 est.)
2.5% (2014 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP)$1,600 (2016 est.)
$1,500 (2015 est.)
$1,500 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
Gross national saving11.1% of GDP (2016 est.)
11.5% of GDP (2015 est.)
7.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
GDP - composition, by end usehousehold consumption: 92.2%
government consumption: 11.4%
investment in fixed capital: 6.1%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 20.7%
imports of goods and services: -30.4% (2016 est.)
GDP - composition, by sector of originagriculture: 45%
industry: 13.3%
services: 41.7% (2016 est.)
Agriculture - productsrice, corn, beans, cassava (manioc, tapioca), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish
Industriesagricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks
Industrial production growth rate0.7% (2016 est.)
Labor force731,300 (2013 est.)
Labor force - by occupationagriculture: 82%
industry and services: 18% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rateNA%
Population below poverty line67% (2015 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage sharelowest 10%: 2.9%
highest 10%: 28% (2002)
Budgetrevenues: $171.3 million
expenditures: $212.7 million (2016 est.)
Taxes and other revenues14.7% of GDP (2016 est.)
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)-3.5% of GDP (2016 est.)
Fiscal yearcalendar year
Inflation rate (consumer prices)1.5% (2016 est.)
1.4% (2015 est.)
Central bank discount rate4.25% (31 December 2009)
4.75% (31 December 2008)
Commercial bank prime lending rate15% (31 December 2016 est.)
15% (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of narrow money$537.2 million (31 December 2016 est.)
$454.8 million (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of broad money$596.5 million (31 December 2016 est.)
$514.1 million (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of domestic credit$255.6 million (31 December 2016 est.)
$206.5 million (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares$NA
Current account balance-$20 million (2016 est.)
-$11 million (2015 est.)
Exports$163.2 million (2016 est.)
$202.9 million (2015 est.)
Exports - commoditiesfish, shrimp; cashews, peanuts, palm kernels, raw and sawn lumber
Exports - partnersIndia 63.5%, Nigeria 20.3%, China 5.7%, Togo 5.6% (2015)
Imports$196.8 million (2016 est.)
$199.5 million (2015 est.)
Imports - commoditiesfoodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products
Imports - partnersPortugal 27.1%, Senegal 12.8%, China 6.5%, Spain 5.5%, Cuba 4.8% (2015)
Debt - external$1.095 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
$941.5 million (31 December 2000 est.)
Exchange ratesCommunaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar -
605.7 (2016 est.)
591.45 (2015 est.)
591.45 (2014 est.)
494.42 (2013 est.)
510.53 (2012 est.)