- ISO 3166
GW- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
635K
0%world median 81%100%
30% of 2.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown here.
Languages
3
Portuguese 100% · French 15% · Mankanya 3%
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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Guinea-Bissau
share of 2.1M people
- Portugueseofficial100%2.1M
- French15%319.9K
- Mankanya3%55.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against pt-GW, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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