Guyana 
Facts
Population:
697,181
note:
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
28.19% (male 100,194; female 96,309)
15-64 years:
66.89% (male 234,976; female 231,360)
65 years and over:
4.92% (male 15,324; female 19,018) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.07% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
17.92 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
8.87 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-8.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.81 male(s)/female
total population:
1.01 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
38.72 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
63.31 years
male:
60.52 years
female:
66.24 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.1 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
3.01% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
15,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
900 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Guyanese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Guyanese
Ethnic groups:
East Indian 49%, black 32%, mixed 12%, Amerindian 6%, white and Chinese 1%
Religions:
Christian 50%, Hindu 33%, Muslim 9%, other 8%
Languages:
English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over has ever attended school
total population:
98.1%
male:
98.6%
female:
97.5% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $3.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $4,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
34.7%
industry:
32.5%
services:
32.8% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.9% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
245,492 (1992)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:
12% (1992 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$220.1 million
expenditures:
$286.4 million, including capital expenditures of $86.6 million (1998)
Industries:
bauxite, sugar, rice milling, timber, fishing (shrimp), textiles, gold mining
Industrial production growth rate:
7.1% (1997 est.)
Electricity - production:
455 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
98.9%
hydro:
1.1%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
423.2 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
sugar, rice, wheat, vegetable oils; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; forest and fishery potential not exploited
Exports:
$570 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
sugar, gold, bauxite/alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, timber
Exports - partners:
US 22%, Canada 22%, UK 18%, Netherlands Antilles 11%, Jamaica (1999)
Imports:
$660 million (c.i.f., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
manufactures, machinery, petroleum, food
Imports - partners:
US 29%, Trinidad and Tobago 18%, Netherlands Antilles 16%, UK 7%, Japan (1999)
Debt - external:
$1.1 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$84 million (1995), Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC) $253 million (1997)
Currency:
Guyanese dollar (GYD)
Currency code:
GYD
Exchange rates:
Guyanese dollars per US dollar - 184.1 (November 2000), 182.2 (2000), 178.0 (1999), 150.5 (1998), 142.4 (1997), 140.4 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
(Government-owned), Georgetown
http://www.guyanachronicle.com
(Privately-owned, daily), Georgetown
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/
Mirror
(Paper of the ruling Peoples Progressive Party), Georgetown
(Independent), Georgetown
http://www.stabroeknews.com
(Independent), Georgetown
http://www.stabroeknews.com
Guyana in the News
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the focus on terrorism has rippled from the United States across the world not only in large and influential nations but also in small and geopolitically nonstrategic countries. Now Guyana, a poor South American country of 700,000, has introduced the concept of terrorism into its laws.
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