- Capital: Bissau
- POPULATION: 1.442 Million
- LANGUAGES: Portuguese(official)
- Median age: 19
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 37.22
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 16.53
- Life expectancy: 46.87
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 42.4%
  male: 58.1%
  female: 27.4% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 10 September 1974 from Portugal
- GDP per capita: $800

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