0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
8,600 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Current account balance:
$-308.3 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$709.2 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
bauxite, alumina, gold, diamonds, coffee, fish, agricultural
products
Exports - partners:
France 17.7%, Belgium 14.7%, UK 14.7%, Switzerland 12.8%, Ukraine
4.2% (2004)
Imports:
$641.5 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment,
textiles, grain and other foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
Cote d'Ivoire 15.5%, France 9%, Belgium 6.1%, China 6%, South
Africa 4.8% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$201.7 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$3.25 billion (2001 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$359.2 million (1998)
Currency (code):
Guinean franc (GNF)
Currency code:
GNF
Exchange rates:
Guinean francs per US dollar - 2,550 (2004), 1,984.9 (2003),
1,975.8 (2002), 1,950.6 (2001), 1,746.9 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Guinea
Telephones - main lines in use:
26,200 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
111,500 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: poor to fair system of open-wire lines, small
radiotelephone communication stations, and new microwave radio relay
system
domestic: microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communication
international: country code - 224; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 4 (one station is inactive), FM 1 (plus 7 repeaters), shortwave
3 (2001)
Radios:
357,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
6 low-power stations (2001)
Televisions:
85,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.gn
Internet hosts:
380 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
4 (2001)
Internet users:
40,000 (2003)
Transportation Guinea
Railways:
total: 837 km
standard gauge: 175 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 662 km 1.000-m gauge (2004)
Highways:
total: 30,500 km
paved: 5,033 km
unpaved: 25,467 km (1999 est.)
Waterways:
1,295 km (navigable by shallow-draft native craft) (2003)
Ports and harbors:
Kamsar
Airports:
16 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 11
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)
Military Guinea
Military branches:
Army (includes Presidential Guard, Republican Guard), Navy, Air
Force, National Gendarmerie, General Directorate of National Police
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service
obligation - 2 years (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18–49: 1,853,316 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18–49: 1,038,036 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$56.7 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.7% (2004)
Transnational Issues Guinea
Disputes - international:
conflicts among rebel groups, warlords, and youth gangs in
neighboring states has spilled over into Guinea, resulting in
domestic instability; Sierra Leone pressures Guinea to remove its
forces from the town of Yenga occupied since 1998
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 133,175 (Liberia) 13,633 (Sierra
Leone) 7,064 (Cote d'Ivoire)
IDPs: 100,000 (cross-border incursions from Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Cote d'Ivoire) (2004)
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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@Guinea-Bissau
Introduction Guinea-Bissau
Background:
Since independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has
experienced considerable upheaval. The founding government consisted
of a single party system and command economy. In 1980, a military
coup established Joao VIEIRA as president and a path to a market
economy and multiparty system was implemented. A number of coup
attempts through the 1980s and early 1990s failed to unseat him and