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2024
global knowledge index
Guinea
KEY INDICATORS
- GDP (US$ billions):56.655
- Population:14,405,468
- HDI:0.471
132/141
Gki
Score
30.2
World
Average
47.8
Country Performance Summary
Guinea is a weak performer in terms of its knowledge infrastructure. It ranks 132nd out of 141 countries in the Global Knowledge Index 2024 and 15th out of the 23 countries with low human development.
Areas of Strength
- Teaching staff compensation (% tertiary expenditure)
- Proportion of skilled production workers
- Enrolment in vocational education, gender parity
- Firms with products and services new to the market (%)
- Renewable energy consumption (%)
Areas of Improvement
- Completion rate in upper secondary education, location parity
- Gross attendance ratio for tertiary education, wealth parity
- 3G/4G mobile network coverage (% population)
- Chinn-Ito financial openness
- Female-to-male ratio in Internet usage
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