🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Bissau

Africa

Low income

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Population

2.2M

2.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.76

births/woman

Life Expectancy

64.3y

GDP / capita

$1.1K

Pop. Growth

2.16%

Net Migration

-1.4K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Guinea-Bissau by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇸🇳Senegal7.6K(54.2%)

−27%

🇬🇳Guinea3K(21.5%)

−35%

🇬🇲

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male1.1MTotal 2.2M1.1MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.1

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇱🇷Liberia532(3.8%)

−37%

🇵🇹Portugal505(3.6%)

−35%

🇸🇱Sierra Leone491(3.5%)

−36%

🇲🇷Mauritania342(2.4%)

−35%

🇨🇻Cabo Verde338(2.4%)

−35%

🇺🇸United States190(1.3%)

−35%

🇫🇷France66(0.5%)

−37%

🇨🇦Canada34(0.2%)

−37%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Guinea-Bissau diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Guinea-Bissau who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇵🇹Portugal36.7K(35.6%)

+46%

🇸🇳Senegal31.3K(30.4%)

+13%

🇬🇲Gambia, The15.1K(14.7%)

+27%

🇨🇻Cabo Verde5.6K(5.4%)

+15%

🇬🇳Guinea4.2K(4.1%)

−16%

🇮🇹Italy3.1K(3.0%)

+542%

🇱🇺Luxembourg1.8K(1.7%)

🇧🇷Brazil1.5K(1.5%)

+62%

🇲🇷Mauritania1.4K(1.4%)

+70%

🇸🇱Sierra Leone605(0.6%)

13×

🇲🇱Mali465(0.5%)

+61%

🇱🇾Libya348(0.3%)

+26%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024