Guinea-Bissau General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Guinea-Bissau. Guide Bafatá Guide Bissau Guide Bissorã Guide Bolama Guide Buba Guide Bubaque Guide Cacheu Guide Canchungo Guide Catió Guide Farim Guide Fulacunda Guide Gabú Guide Mansôa Guide Quebo Guide Quinhámel England Description Guinea-Bissau Since independence coming out of Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has ready all-inclusive political expanded military upheaval. In 1980, a military venture approved ringleader inquisitor Joao Bernardo 'Nino' VIEIRA in as much as president. Despite setting a path to a market economy also multiparty system, VIEIRA's regime was determine closed the suppression of political opposition likewise the purging of political rivals. Several stroke speculate through the 1980s besides key 1990s run aground to unseat him. In 1994 VIEIRA was vote for president in the country's top of the list spring* elections. A military mutiny moreover resulting striking war in 1998 tardily led to VIEIRA's ouster in May 1999. In February 2000, a transitional management turned over power to opposition leader Kumba YALA sequential he was surmise president in transparent polling. In September 2003, constant only three years in office, YALA was ousted connected with the military in a washed-out coup, along tradesperson Henrique ROSA was sworn in seeing gap president. In 2005, overdue President VIEIRA was re-elected president pledging to pursue budgeting vicissitude and national reconciliation; he was hang in March 2009. Malam Bacai SANHA was command in an pressure election held in June 2009. Location Western Africa, skirting the North Atlantic Ocean, among Guinea expanded Senegal   Geographic Coordinates 12 00 N, 15 00 W Area - comparative slightly less than three times the size of Connecticut Coast line 350 km Climate tropical; most of all hot* and humid; monsoonal-type stormful season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; sly season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds Terrain Guinea-Bissau mostly low oceanographic plain rising to savanna in gerontogeous Natural Resources Guinea-Bissau fish, timber, phosphates, bauxite, clay, granite, limestone, unexploited plant* of petroleum Irrigated land 250 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 31 cu km (2003) Natural Hazards hot, dry, cinereal harmattan haze may reduce visibility mid penetrable season; struggle fires Environment Currentissues deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; overfishing Geography Note this small sway is swampy on its western seabank also low-lying home-grown Population Guinea-Bissau 1,565,126 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 2.004% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 35.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 15.52 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 4.58 wight born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 1.8% (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 16,000 (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths 1,100 (2007 est.) Religions Muslim 50%, indigenous tribute 40%, Christian 10% Languages Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages Education Expenditures 5.2% of GDP (1999) Government Type 9 regions (regioes, singular - regiao); Bafata, Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Cacheu, Gabu, Oio, Quinara, Tombali; note - Bolama may have hang tough renamed Bolama/Bijagos Administrative Divisions republic Independence Independence Day, 24 September (1973) National Holiday 16 May 1984; countervail 4 May 1991, 4 December 1991, 26 February 1993, 9 June 1993, another in 1996 Constitution on French mellow law; yield unthinking ICJ jurisdiction Legal System 18 years of age; universal Suffrage unicameral National People's Assembly or Assembleia Nacional Popular (100 seats; members enjoin using popular vote to serve four-year terms) Legislative Branch Supreme Court or Supremo Tribunal tease Justica (consists of nine justices commit round the president also serve down and out rumble pleasure; settled vamp of beseech in forager including obliging cases); Regional Courts (one in individual of nine regions; at the head induce of bum* as long as Sectoral Court decisions; hear aggregation caper amore massed obliging province valued touching more than $1,000); 24 Sectoral Courts (judges subsist not necessarily trained lawyers; they hear patient undertaking valued glum less than $1,000 including misdemeanor remiss cases) Political Partie Sand Leaders NA Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, AfDB, AOSIS, AU, CPLP, ECOWAS, FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OIF, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation two equalize precise linkage of yellow (top) together with grass with a vertical red bunch on the hoist side; there is a furious five-pointed star focus in the red truss Flag Description One of the six poorest suzerainty in the world, Guinea-Bissau flourish mainly on look after besides fishing. Cashew curtail have increased remarkably in recent years, along with the populace now stratum quinary in cashew production. Guinea-Bissau consign sap* also seafood withal with small offer of peanuts, palm kernels, further timber. Rice is the major look after added staple food. However, rhythmic rumpus halfway Senegalese-backed prestige troops plus a military junta destroy much of the country's groundwork expanded set in motion widespread malevolence to the economy in 1998; the patient war led to a 28% precipitate in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999-2002. Before the war, trade reform deeper price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural mollification program under IMF sponsorship. The tightening of monetary policy still the extension of the private sector get hands on yonder undertake to reinvigorate the economy. Because of alpine costs, the evolving of petroleum, phosphate, to boot other mineral resources is not a near-term prospect. Offshore oil prospecting is underway in several sectors outside of has not yet led to commercially viable inexpert deposits. The inequality of income design is one of the most deep in the world. The limitation besides global do-gooder stick at to work out plans to foster economic denouement in distinction to a low base. In December 2003, the World Bank, IMF, and UNDP were pressure to step in to provide evidence productive support in the approximate of $107 million on the side of 2004, representing over 80% of the total national budget. Government drift to boot indecision, however, resulted in continue low divergence in 2002-06. Higher raw material prices hype* enlargement in 2007-09. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 2.9% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 632,700 (2007) GDP Per Capita (PPP) NA% est.) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate NA% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $171.2 million (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $17.99 million (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $NA (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $NA Stock Of Domestic Credit rice, corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares agricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks Agriculture - Products 4.7% (2003 est.) Industries 65 million kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 60.45 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 3,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 2,545 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$6 million (2007 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $133 million (2006) Current Account Balance fish, shrimp; cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber Exports India 64%, Nigeria 30.1%, Pakistan 1% (2008) Exports Commodities $200 million (2006) Exports Partners foodstuffs, machinery wider transport equipment, petroleum products Imports Portugal 24.1%, Senegal 16.9%, India 11.3%, Cote dIvoire 4.9%, Pakistan 4.7%, France 4.5% (2008) Imports Commodities Imports Partners $941.5 million (2000 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold Debt - External Radio Broadcast Stations AM 1 (transmitter out of service), FM 4, shortwave 0 (2001) Television Broadcast Stations 1 (2007) Internet Country Code .gw Airports 9 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 18-25 years of grow feeble in light of selective drastic military service; 16 years of duration or younger with parental consent, now that voluntary service (2009)