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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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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 2015	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
International resource flows to and from developed countries	Estimates of international resource flows from and to the country, US$ (constant 2016 prices). Data is for 2000-2016. Data on private development assistance (PDA) is shown for a single year only. See methodology for detailed notes on the data for each resource flow.	constant 2016 US$	Source: Development Initiatives based on numerous sources. Note that data on some flows are missing. Official development assistance, other official flows and officially supported export credits: OECD DAC. Foreign direct investment: OECD. Long- and short-term debt: World Bank International Debt Statistics. Portfolio equity: World Bank data bank. Remittances: World Bank Migration and Remittances Data. Private Development Assistance: Hudson Institute Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances 2016 and OECD DAC.	ZIP CSV
International resource flows to and from developing countries	Estimates of international resource flows to and from the country, US$ (constant 2016 prices). Data is for 2000-2016. Estimates are in gross for 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). Blended finance refers to private finance mobilised by official development finance interventions, data is available for 2012-2015 only. Data on South-South Cooperation can vary in-terms of definition and types of flow included by provider. See methodology for detailed notes on the data for each resource flow.	constant 2016 US$	Source: Development Initiatives based on numerous sources. Note that data on some flows are missing. Official development assistance, other official flows, officially supported export credits, blended finance: 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. Tourism: World Bank World Development Indicators. South-South cooperation data is based on the national sources of each provider.	ZIP CSV
Non-grant government revenue	Non-grant government revenue. Data is for 2016.	constant 2016 US$, NCU	Development Initiatives based on IMF Staff reports.	ZIP CSV
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
Total population	Total population. Data is for 2016	unit	World Bank World Development Indicators	ZIP CSV

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