BTI 2020 Country Report Guinea-Bissau This report is part of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) 2020. It covers the period from February 1, 2017 to January 31, 2019. The BTI assesses the transformation toward democracy and a market economy as well as the quality of governance in 137 countries. More on the BTI at https://www.bti-project.org. Please cite as follows: Bertelsmann Stiftung, BTI 2020 Country Report — Guinea-Bissau. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Contact Bertelsmann Stiftung Carl-Bertelsmann-Strasse 256 33111 Gütersloh Germany Sabine Donner Phone +49 5241 81 81501
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[email protected] BTI 2020 | Guinea-Bissau 3 Key Indicators Population M 1.9 HDI 0.461 GDP p.c., PPP $ 1796 Pop. growth1 % p.a. 2.5 HDI rank of 189 178 Gini Index 50.7 Life expectancy years 57.7 UN Education Index 0.402 Poverty3 % 84.5 Urban population % 43.4 Gender inequality2 - Aid per capita $ 62.0 Sources (as of December 2019): The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2019 | UNDP, Human Development Report 2019. Footnotes: (1) Average annual growth rate. (2) Gender Inequality Index (GII). (3) Percentage of population living on less than $3.20 a day at 2011 international prices. Executive Summary Throughout the period under review, developments in Guinea-Bissau were shaped by the ongoing domestic political crisis between President José Mário Vaz and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).