Name | Guyana |
Long name | Co-operative Republic of Guyana |
Population (people) | 747,884 (2002) |
Population (source) | census |
Constitutional form | Republic |
Drives on | Left |
Head of state authority | Executive |
Main continent | Americas |
Number of airports | 98 |
Airports - with paved runways | 11 |
Airports - with unpaved runways | 87 |
Area (m²) | 215 |
Birth rate (births/1,000 population) | 17 |
Calling code | |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%) | 11 |
Current Account Balance (US$) | -233,700,000 |
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population) | 7 |
Debt - external (Billion US$) | 1 |
Economic aid donor (Billion $) | |
Electricity consumption (billion kWh) | 1 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person) | 927 |
Electricity exports (million kWh) | 0 |
Electricity imports (million kWh) | 0 |
Electricity production (billion kWh) | 1 |
Exports (Billion $) | 1 |
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$) | 7,600 |
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $) | 6 |
GDP real growth rate (%) | 4 |
Gross national income (US$) | 45 |
Human Development Index | 1 |
Health expenditures (% of GDP) | 6 |
Heliports | |
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%) | 1 |
HIV AIDS deaths | 500 |
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS | 5,900 |
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population) | 2 |
Capital city | Georgetown, Guyana |
Currency | Guyanese dollar |
Imports (Billion $) | 1 |
Industrial production growth rate (%) | 0 |
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births) | 36 |
Inflation rate consumer prices (%) | 2 |
Internet hosts | 24,840 |
Internet tld | .gy |
Internet users | 189,600 |
Investment (gross fixed) (%) | 25 |
Iso 3166 code | GY |
ISO CODE | GUY |
Labor force | 313,100 |
Life expectancy at birth (years) | 67 |
Literacy (%) | 92 |
Manpower available for military service | 189,840 |
Manpower fit for military service | 133,239 |
Manpower reaching militarily age annually | 8,849 |
Is democracy | Yes |
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$) | 440,400,000 |
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births) | 280 |
Merchant marine | 7 |
Military expenditures percent of GDP | 2 |
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person) | 0 |
Natural gas exports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas imports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas production (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters) | 0 |
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population) | -13 |
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%) | |
Oil consumption (bbl/day) | 10,000 |
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people) | 13 |
Oil exports (bbl/day) | 0 |
Oil imports (bbl/day) | 10,480 |
Oil production (bbl/day) | 0 |
Oil proved reserves (bbl) | 0 |
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population) | 0 |
Population below poverty line (%) | 35 |
Population census (people) | 747,884 (2002) |
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer) | 3 |
Population estimate (people) | 735,554 (2014) |
Population growth rate (%) | 0 |
Public debt (% of GDP) | 62 |
Railways (km) | |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$) | 807,800,000 |
Roadways (km) | 7,970 |
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$) | |
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$) | |
Telephones main lines in use | 149,900 |
Telephones main lines in use per capita | 19 |
Telephones mobile cellular | 555,400 |
Telephones mobile cellular per capita | 73 |
Total fertility rate (children born/woman) | 2 |
Unemployment rate (%) | 11 |
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%) | 24 |
Waterways (km) | 330 |
Valley | |
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Canyon | |
Artillery | |
Crater | |
Religion | |
Continent | Americas |
Border | Frontera entre Brasil y Guyana, Frontière entre le Guyana et le Suriname, Frontière entre le Guyana et le Venezuela |
Plateau | Guiana Shield |
Marsh | |
Demonym | guyanese |