Guinea-Bissau
Guiné-Bissau
Waiting for the first voice
تا مرد سخن نگفته باشد / عیب و هنرش نهفته باشد
Until a man has spoken, his faults and his gifts both stay hidden.
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Did you know
In 2025, the Bijagós Archipelago became Guinea-Bissau's first UNESCO World Heritage site. (source)
Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 3.2%
- people aged 65 or older
- 72.8K
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 5.7%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 15.1 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 1.7%
- women 1%, men 2.5%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2019
Languages
32 languages, 19 of them endangered
- KasangaCritically endangered
- Bainouk-Gunyaamolo-GutoborDefinitely endangered
- KobianaDefinitely endangered
- MbulungishDefinitely endangered
- Arame-GubaareVulnerable
- BadyaraVulnerable
- Bainouk-GunyuñoVulnerable
- Balanta-KentoheVulnerable
- BassariVulnerable
- BayotVulnerable
- BiafadaVulnerable
- Jola-FelupeVulnerable
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- Kamona BijogoVulnerable
- KasaVulnerable
- MandjakVulnerable
- MankanyaVulnerable
- NaluVulnerable
- PapelVulnerable
- SuaVulnerable
- Balanta-Ganja
- Bijago
- Guinea-Bissau Creole
- Guinea-Bissau Sign Language
- Jola-Fonyi
- Kerak
- Mandinka
- Pulaar
- Pular
- Soninke
- Susu
- Western Maninkakan
- Wolof
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
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