Guinea-Bissau economy: GDP, investment, trade and remittances
How large the Guinea-Bissau economy is and how fast it is growing, who invests in it, what it sells and buys, how much its citizens abroad send home, who it owes and what it holds in reserve. The latest published year is shown with each figure.
Guinea-Bissau economy snapshot: GDP, growth and income per person
Guinea-Bissau's GDP was US$2.5 billion in 2025, after real growth of 5.8%.
GDP
Current US dollars.
Real GDP growth
Annual change, per cent. Red bars are contractions.
GDP per person
Current US dollars.
Source: World Bank, 2025. Method
Who invests in Guinea-Bissau and in what
Direct investment by investing country
Senegal was the largest investing country in Guinea-Bissau, at 23% of inward direct investment positions in 2023.
Inward direct investment positions in Guinea-Bissau at the end of 2023: the stock of foreign direct investment, not a year's new flow. The 10 largest investing countries.
Source: IMF, 2023. Method
What Guinea-Bissau sells and buys
Guinea-Bissau has not reported recent trade data to UN Comtrade. These figures are what 66 trading partners report about trade with Guinea-Bissau, shown as reported by trading partners. Partners' imports from Guinea-Bissau stand in for its exports and partners' exports to Guinea-Bissau for its imports. They are not Guinea-Bissau's own figures.
Edible fruit and nuts was 93% of exports in 2024.
Guinea-Bissau sold the most to India, 92% of exports in 2024.
Exports by product, 2024
Tile area follows value. Each tile is a customs chapter of the Harmonized System; hover for the full name.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2024. Method
Top buyers, 2024
Share of Guinea-Bissau's exports.
Top suppliers, 2025
Share of Guinea-Bissau's imports.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2024. Method
What Guinea-Bissau buys, 2025
The 8 largest product chapters in imports.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2025. Method
Trade balance of goods
Exports minus imports. Red bars are years when imports were larger. A year is left out when either side is not published.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2024. Method
Remittances against foreign direct investment in Guinea-Bissau
Remittances to Guinea-Bissau were 8.1 times foreign direct investment in 2024.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Remittances and investment as a share of GDP
The same two flows measured against the size of the economy.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Who Guinea-Bissau owes
External debt stock by type of creditor. Creditor types cover public and publicly guaranteed debt; the grey part is the rest of the total external debt stock. A creditor type with no published figure is not shown.
Multilateral creditors held 48% of Guinea-Bissau's external debt stock in 2024.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Reserves and months of import cover
Total reserves including gold, and how many months of imports they cover.
No reserves figures for Guinea-Bissau are not published by the World Bank, so none are shown.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Aid received by Guinea-Bissau
Net official development assistance and official aid received.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
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World Bank data pages for Guinea-Bissau: GDP, GDP growth, GDP per person, remittances, foreign direct investment, reserves, months of imports, external debt, debt by creditor, aid. UN Comtrade: trade data. IMF: direct investment positions.