Population in Guinea-Bissau

The population of Guinea-Bissau was 2,249,515 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.

Measure: Population (UN estimates) Unit: People Data: 1960 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Guinea-Bissau, 2025 2,249,515 People
Change from 2024 +2.2% 2024: 2,201,352 people
World, 2025 8,215,424,893 people Official aggregate
Position in 2025 147th of 217 See the full ranking

Population in Guinea-Bissau over time

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People. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Population (UN estimates) (people), 2001 to 2025
Period Guinea-BissauWorld
2025 2,249,515 people 8,215,424,893 people
2024 2,201,352 people 8,140,897,523 people
2023 2,153,339 people 8,062,923,417 people
2022 2,105,529 people 7,988,550,201 people
2021 2,058,841 people 7,919,567,995 people
2020 2,013,255 people 7,853,863,139 people
2019 1,967,696 people 7,777,162,476 people
2018 1,922,168 people 7,696,159,728 people
2017 1,877,072 people 7,613,788,655 people
2016 1,831,893 people 7,528,221,579 people
2015 1,786,457 people 7,441,084,771 people
2014 1,741,122 people 7,353,532,223 people
2013 1,695,973 people 7,265,404,737 people
2012 1,651,417 people 7,176,482,165 people
2011 1,608,076 people 7,086,704,141 people
2010 1,566,347 people 7,000,860,073 people
2009 1,526,377 people 6,916,168,196 people
2008 1,488,054 people 6,830,080,867 people
2007 1,450,986 people 6,744,049,498 people
2006 1,415,303 people 6,659,536,021 people
2005 1,381,585 people 6,575,410,029 people
2004 1,349,563 people 6,492,354,627 people
2003 1,318,806 people 6,409,352,386 people
2002 1,289,307 people 6,327,171,255 people
2001 1,261,273 people 6,244,739,668 people

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +2.2% from 2,201,352 people in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 1,786,457 people, the figure has changed by +25.9%.
  • Among the 217 countries with data for 2025, Guinea-Bissau has the 147th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 8,215,424,893 people.

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Source and dates

Original producer
United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SP.POP.TOTL · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2025 for Guinea-Bissau
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects