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Guinea-Bissau

Explore this in-depth profile of Guinea-Bissau to find out overall levels of poverty, income distribution, division of wealth and more. Discover how national and sub-national revenue is generated.

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Name	Description	Unit	Source	Download
Population by age group	Number of people in each of 3 age bands.	unit	World Bank World Development Indicators, series code SP.POP.0014.TO.ZS, SP.POP.1564.TO.ZS and SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS.	ZIP CSV
International resource flows to and from developed countries	Estimates of international resource flows from developed countries, 2015 US$.	constant 2015 US$	Development Initiatives based on numerous sources. Note that data of some flows is missing. Development finance institutions: Development Initiatives calculations based on a review of DFIs' annual reports (with flows reported as ODA or OOFs subtracted). Foreign direct investment: OECD. Disbursements of official development assistance and other official flows: OECD DAC. Remittances: World Bank Migration and Remittances Factbook.	ZIP CSV
Non-grant government revenue	Non-grant government revenue. Data is for 2015.	constant 2015 US$, NCU	Development Initiatives based on IMF Staff reports.	ZIP CSV
International resource flows to and from developing countries	Estimates of international resource flows into the country, 2015 US$. Data is for 2015. Estimates are gross inflows where available, with the following exceptions: foreign direct investment and portfolio equity are net inflows (new investments minus disinvestments) and short-term debt is net flows (disbursements minus capital repayments). See methodology for detailed notes on the data for each resource flow.	constant 2015 US$	Development Initiatives based on numerous sources. Note that data on some flows are missing. Official development assistance and other official flows: OECD DAC. Foreign direct investment: UNCTAD Stats. Long- and short-term debt: World Bank International Debt Statistics. Portfolio equity: World Bank data bank. Remittances: World Bank Migration and Remittances Data.	ZIP CSV
Depth of extreme poverty (poverty gap)	Depth of extreme poverty (also known as the poverty gap) tells us how far people are from the extreme poverty line, on average per country. Data is for 2013	percent	World Bank PovcalNet.	ZIP CSV
Income share by quintile	Percentage of income received by each quintile of the population. Data is for 2014 or most recent year prior.	percent	World Bank World Development Indicators, series code SI.DST.FRST.20, SI.DST.02ND.20, SI.DST.03RD.20, SI.DST.04TH.20 and SI.DST.05TH.20.	ZIP CSV
Total population	Total population. Data is for 2015	unit	World Bank World Development Indicators	ZIP CSV

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