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Demographics of Guinea describes the condition and overview of Guinea's peoples. Demographic topics include basic education, health, and population statistics as well as identified racial and religious affiliations.


Population

According to the total population was in , compared to only 3 094 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 42.9%, 53.8% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.3% was 65 years or older . Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2020):


Vital statistics

Registration of vital events is in Guinea not complete. The website
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Fertility and Births

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR): Fertility data as of 2012 and 2018 (DHS Program):


Life expectancy


Ethnic groups

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Fulɓe The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people ( ff, Fulɓe, ; french: Peul, links=no; ha, Fulani or Hilani; pt, Fula, links=no; wo, Pël; bm, Fulaw) are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region ...
(singular Pullo). Called Peuhl or Peul in French, Fula or Fulani in English, who are chiefly found in the mountainous region of
Fouta Djallon Fouta Djallon ( ff, 𞤊𞤵𞥅𞤼𞤢 𞤔𞤢𞤤𞤮𞥅, Fuuta Jaloo; ar, فوتا جالون) is a highland region in the center of Guinea, roughly corresponding with Middle Guinea, in West Africa. Etymology The Fulani people call the ...
; *
Maninka Maninka (also known as Malinke), or more precisely Eastern Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké peopl ...
. Malinke in French, Mandingo in English, mostly inhabiting the
savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland- grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...
of Upper Guinea and the Forest region; * Susus or Soussous. Susu is not a lingua franca in Guinea. Although it is commonly spoken in the coastal areas, including the capital, Conakry, it is not largely understood in the interior of the country. *Several small groups (Gerzé or Kpelle, Toma, Kissis, etc.) in the forest region and Bagas (including Landoumas), Koniaguis etc.), In the coastal area. West Africans make up the largest non-Guinean population. Non-Africans total about 30,000 (mostly French, other Europeans, and Lebanese). Seven national languages are used extensively; the major written languages are French, Pular ( en, Fula; french: Peul or Peuhl), and Arabic. Other languages have established Latin orthographies that are used somewhat, notably for Susu and
Maninka Maninka (also known as Malinke), or more precisely Eastern Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké peopl ...
. The
N'Ko script N'Ko () is a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Mandé languages of West Africa. The term ''N'Ko'', which means ''I say'' in all Mandé languages, is also used for the Mandé literary standard writt ...
is increasingly used on a grassroots level for the
Maninka language Maninka (also known as Malinke), or more precisely Eastern Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké peop ...
.


Other demographic statistics

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022. *One birth every 1 minutes *One death every 5 minutes *One net migrant every 131 minutes *Net gain of one person every 1 minutes The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook.


Population

:13,237,832 (2022 est.) :11,855,411 (July 2018 est.)


Religions

Muslim 89.1%, Christian 6.8%, animist 1.6%, other 0.1%, none 2.4% (2014 est.)


Age structure

:''0-14 years:'' 41.2% (male 2,601,221/female 2,559,918) :''15-24 years:'' 19.32% (male 1,215,654/female 1,204,366) :''25-54 years:'' 30.85% (male 1,933,141/female 1,930,977) :''55-64 years:'' 4.73% (male 287,448/female 305,420) :''65 years and over:'' 3.91% (male 218,803/female 270,492) (2020 est.) :''0-14 years:'' 41.4% (male 2,473,486 /female 2,435,139) :''15-24 years:'' 19.23% (male 1,145,488 /female 1,134,103) :''25-54 years:'' 30.8% (male 1,827,246 /female 1,824,162) :''55-64 years:'' 4.72% (male 269,995 /female 289,164) :''65 years and over:'' 3.85% (male 203,754 /female 252,874) (2018 est.)


Median age

:total: 19.1 years. Country comparison to the world: 205th :male: 18.9 years :female: 19.4 years (2020 est.) :total: 19 years. Country comparison to the world: 204th :male: 18.8 years :female: 19.3 years (2018 est.) :Total: 18.9 years :Male: 18.7 years :Female: 19.1 years (2017 est.)


Population growth rate

:2.76% (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 14th :2.75% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 13th :2.61% (2017 est.)


Birth rate

:35.67 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 13th :36.4 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 16th


Death rate

:8.12 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 82nd :8.9 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 64th


Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

:4.85 children born/woman (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 11st :4.98 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 14th


Mother's mean age at first birth

:19.9 years (2018 est.) :note: median age at first birth among women 20-49 :18.9 years (2012 est.) :note: median age at first birth among women 25-29


Contraceptive prevalence rate

:10.9% (2018) :8.7% (2016)


Net migration rate

:0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 89th


Dependency ratio The dependency ratio is an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the ''dependent'' part ages 0 to 14 and 65+) and those typically in the labor force (the ''productive'' part ages 15 to 64). It is used to measure the press ...
s

:total dependency ratio: 84.2 (2015 est.) :youth dependency ratio: 78.6 (2015 est.) :elderly dependency ratio: 5.6 (2015 est.) :
potential support ratio The potential support ratio (PSR) is the number of people age 15–64 per one older person aged 65 or older. This ratio describes the burden placed on the working population (unemployment and children are not considered in this measure) by the no ...
: 17.8 (2015 est.)


Life expectancy at birth

:total population: 63.9 years. Country comparison to the world: 205th :male: 62.04 years :female: 65.82 years (2022 est.) :total population: 62.1 years (2018 est.) :male: 60.4 years (2018 est.) :female: 64 years (2018 est.) :''total population'': 61 years :''male'': 59.5 years :''female'': 62.6 years (2017 est.)


Urbanization

:urban population: 37.7% of total population (2022) :rate of urbanization: 3.64% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) :urban population: 36.1% of total population (2018) :rate of urbanization: 3.54% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)


Sex ratio

''at birth'' 1.03 male(s)/female
''under 15 years'' 1.02 male(s)/female
''15-64 years'' 1 male(s)/female
''65 years and over'' 0.78 male(s)/female
''total population'' 1 male(s)/female (2011 est.)


HIV/AIDS

Adult prevalence rate: 1.5% (2017 est.) People living with
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/ AIDS: 120,000 (2017 est.) Deaths: 5,100 (2017 est.)


Nationality

''noun'' Guinean(s)
''adjective'' Guinean


Ethnic groups

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Fulani The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people ( ff, Fulɓe, ; french: Peul, links=no; ha, Fulani or Hilani; pt, Fula, links=no; wo, Pël; bm, Fulaw) are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. ...
(Peul) 33,4% *
Malinke Maninka (also known as Malinke), or more precisely Eastern Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké peop ...
29,4% *
Soussou The Susu people are a Mandé peoples, Mande-speaking ethnic group living primarily in Guinea and Northwestern Sierra Leone, particularly in Kambia District.
21.2% * Guerze 7.8% * Kissi 6.2% * Toma 1.6% *Other/No Answer 4% (2018 est.)


Languages

French (official), each ethnic group has its own language.


Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.) :total population: 39.6% :male: 54.4% :female: 27.7% (2018) :total population: 30.4% (2015 est.) :male: 38.1% (2015 est.) :female: 22.8% (2015 est.)


School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)

:total: 9 years :male: 10 years :female: 8 years (2014)


Major infectious diseases

:degree of risk: very high (2020) :food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever :vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever :water contact diseases: schistosomiasis :animal contact diseases: rabies :aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases: Lassa fever (2016) note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Guinea is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine


Unemployment, youth ages 15-24

:total: 1% (2012 est.) :male: 1.5% (2012 est.) :female: 0.6% (2012 est.)


References

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