Fertility and Births

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR):^[6][7]

Fertility data as of 2012 and 2018 (DHS Program):^[8]

Life expectancy

More information Period, Life expectancy in Years ...

Period	Life expectancy in Years[9]
1950–1955	33.07
1955–1960	34.33
1960–1965	35.38
1965–1970	36.14
1970–1975	37.43
1975–1980	39.87
1980–1985	43.05
1985–1990	47.92
1990–1995	51.28
1995–2000	51.61
2000–2005	51.31
2005–2010	55.45
2010–2015	57.93

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Population

13,237,832 (2022 est.)

11,855,411 (July 2018 est.)

Religions

Muslim 86.8%, Christian 3.52%, Indigenous beliefs 9.42%, Buddhist 0.5%, no religious beliefs 0.1% (2020).^[12]

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

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 ratios

total dependency ratio: 84.2 (2015 est.)

youth dependency ratio: 78.6 (2015 est.)

elderly dependency ratio: 5.6 (2015 est.)

potential support ratio: 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 HIV/AIDS: 120,000 (2017 est.) Deaths: 5,100 (2017 est.)

Nationality

noun Guinean(s)
adjective Guinean

Ethnic groups

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• Fulani (Peul) 33,4%
• Malinke 29,4%
• Soussou 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.^[14]

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.)