Guinea

Guinea's forecast is the headline: the IMF projects GDP of US$69.0 billion by 2030, a rise of +143% that would lift it to 94th among economies with forecasts. For now it ranks 119th, up 1 place, between Zambia and Malta, with US$ GDP up 13.3% to US$28.3 billion.

Real growth ran at +7.5% in 2025; the further 5.9 percentage points of dollar gains were mostly exchange-rate and price effects, not output. Services account for 35.7% of output, agriculture 31.3% and industry 25.4%, with manufacturing at 12.7% as of 2022. Inflation was 3.6%, unemployment 5.2% and government gross debt 36.3% of GDP.

With 15.1 million people, output per person is US$1,877, 163rd of 196, and $4,935 international dollars on a purchasing-power basis, 162nd. GDP has grown 6.5x since 2000, when it stood at US$4.4 billion and ranked 122nd. Guinea is about the size of the Asheville, NC metro area.