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 GuyanaMore Facts & Figures
Current government officials
Languages:
English (official), Amerindian dialects,
Creole, Hindi, Urdu
Ethnicity/race:
East Indian 50%; black 36%; Amerindian 7%;
white, Chinese, and mixed 7%
Religions:
Christian 50%, Hindu 35%, Islam 10%, other
5%
National Holiday:
Republic Day, February 23 Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2007
est.): $2.92billion; per capita $3,800. Real growth rate:
5.4%. Inflation: 12.2%. Unemployment: 9.1% (2000)
(understated). Arable land: 2%. Labor force: 418,000
(2001 est.); agriculture n.a., industry n.a., services n.a.
Agriculture: sugarcane, rice, wheat, vegetable oils; beef,
pork, poultry, dairy products; fish, shrimp. Industries:
bauxite, sugar, rice milling, timber, textiles, gold mining.
Natural resources: bauxite, gold, diamonds, hardwood timber,
shrimp, fish. Exports: $499.4 million f.o.b. (2007 est.):
sugar, gold, bauxite/alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, timber.
Imports: $835.8 million f.o.b. (2007 est.): manufactures,
machinery, petroleum, food. Major trading partners: Canada,
U.S., Netherlands, UK, Portugal, Belgium, Jamaica, Trinidad and
Tobago, Cuba (2006).
Member of Commonwealth of Nations
Communications: Telephones: main lines
in use: 110,100 (2005); mobile cellular: 281,400 (2005). Radio
broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998).
Television broadcast stations: 3 (one public station; two
private stations which relay U.S. satellite services) (1997).
Internet hosts: 3,000 (2007). Internet users: 160,000
(2005). Transportation: Railways: total: 187 km
(all dedicated to ore transport) (2001 est.). Highways:
total: 7,970 km; paved: 590 km; unpaved: 7,380 km (1999 est.).
Waterways: 1,077 km; note: Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo
rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and
80 km respectively (2004) . Ports and harbors: Georgetown.
Airports: 93 (2007). International disputes: all of the area
west of the Essequibo (river) is claimed by Venezuela preventing any
discussion of a maritime boundary; Guyana has expressed its
intention to join Barbados in asserting claims before UNCLOS that
Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with Venezuela extends into
their waters; Suriname claims a triangle of land between the New and
Kutari/Koetari rivers in a historic dispute over the headwaters of
the Courantyne; Guyana seeks UNCLOS arbitration to resolve the
long-standing dispute with Suriname over the axis of the territorial
sea boundary in potentially oil-rich waters.
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