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
Guinea's total population, from 1961 to 2003. Guinea's population came close to tripling in forty years.Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates
According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects[1][2] the total population was 13,531,906 in 2021, 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
.[3]
Total population
Population aged 0–14 (%)
Population aged 15–64 (%)
Population aged 65+ (%)
1950
3 094 000
37.1
57.6
5.3
1955
3 300 000
38.6
57.0
4.4
1960
3 541 000
40.0
56.2
3.8
1965
3 823 000
41.8
54.9
3.4
1970
4 154 000
42.2
54.6
3.2
1975
4 287 000
42.6
54.3
3.1
1980
4 407 000
43.3
53.5
3.2
1985
4 924 000
43.9
52.8
3.3
1990
5 759 000
44.4
52.3
3.3
1995
7 565 000
44.6
52.1
3.3
2000
8 344 000
44.2
52.4
3.3
2005
9 041 000
43.6
53.0
3.3
2010
9 982 000
42.9
53.8
3.3
Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2020) (Population in households only. Post-censal estimates.):[4]
Age Group
Male
Female
Total
%
Total
6 091 847
6 467 776
12 559 623
100
0–4
1 037 280
1 022 153
2 059 433
16.40
5–9
959 509
929 185
1 888 694
15.04
10–14
822 307
806 488
1 628 795
12.97
15–19
657 907
666 443
1 324 350
10.54
20–24
528 044
567 632
1 095 676
8.72
25–29
417 642
512 403
930 045
7.41
30–34
339 033
443 928
782 962
6.23
35–39
275 317
357 350
632 667
5.04
40–44
228 609
289 300
517 909
4.12
45–49
192 971
228 709
421 680
3.36
50–54
162 513
181 040
343 553
2.74
55–59
135 604
137 422
273 025
2.17
60–64
110 535
105 633
216 168
1.72
65–69
85 963
81 143
167 106
1.33
70–74
62 168
59 044
121 212
0.97
75–79
39 993
39 338
79 331
0.63
80+
36 453
40 565
77 018
0.61
Age group
Male
Female
Total
Percent
0–14
2 819 096
2 757 826
5 576 922
44.40
15–64
3 048 174
3 489 860
6 538 034
52.06
65+
224 577
220 090
444 667
3.54
Vital statistics
Registration of vital events is in Guinea not complete. The website Our World in Data prepared the following estimates based on statistics from the Population Department of the United Nations.[5]
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Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Fertility and Births
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR):[6][7]
Year
CBR (Total)
TFR (Total)
CBR (Urban)
TFR (Urban)
CBR (Rural)
TFR (Rural)
1992
41
5.67 (5.1)
37
5.18 (4.5)
42
5.89 (5.3)
1999
36.9
5.5 (5.0)
32.9
4.4 (3.8)
38.4
6.1 (5.6)
2005
38.4
5.7 (5.1)
31.8
4.4 (3.9)
40.8
6.3 (5.7)
2012
34
5.1 (4.6)
29.4
3.8
36.1
5.8
2018
33.6
4.8 (4.3)
29.4
3.8 (3.4)
35.8
5.5 (4.9)
2021
32.5
4.1
28.5
3.1
34.3
4.7
Fertility data as of 2012 and 2018 (DHS Program):[8]
Administrative region
Total fertility rate (2012)
Total fertility rate (2018)
Percentage of women age 15-49 currently pregnant (2012)
Percentage of women age 15-49 currently pregnant (2018)
Mean number of children ever born to women age 40-49 (2012)
Mean number of children ever born to women age 40-49 (2018)
Fulɓe (singular Pullo). Called Peuhl or Peul in French, Fula or Fulani in English, who are chiefly found in the mountainous region of Fouta Djallon;
Maninka. Malinke in French, Mandingo in English, mostly inhabiting the savanna 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.
Other languages have established Latin orthographies that are used somewhat, notably for Susu and Maninka. The N'Ko script is increasingly used on a grassroots level for the Maninka language.
Other demographic statistics
Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022.[11]
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 HIV/AIDS: 120,000 (2017 est.)
Deaths: 5,100 (2017 est.)
French (official), each ethnic group has its own language.[15]
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
