- ISO 3166
GW- Main language + region
pt-GW- Currency
- XOF · West African CFA Franc
- Region
- SSA
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau has 2.1M people, and 635K of them are online. Portuguese is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Portuguese is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to pt-GW.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
635K
0%world median 81%100%
30% of 2.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,124
Higher than 9% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
3
Portuguese 100% · French 15% · Mankanya 2.6%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
55%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Guinea-Bissau
share of 2.1M people
- Portugueseofficial100%2.1M
- French15%319.9K
- Mankanya2.6%55.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Portuguese in 15 territories and 249.5M speakers in total; Guinea-Bissau holds 1% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Portuguese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (pt-GW).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1235 F CFA
1,234.56 in XOF · West African CFA Franc