Guinea Sub-Saharan Africa
Low income Lowincome group 2008
Country data 2000 Economic and social context Population (millions) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method ($) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–08 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, and tertiary enrollment (%) Structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competition (competition, partial comp., monopoly) International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes per person per month) Mobile telephone usage (minutes per user per month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (% of total subscribers) International Internet bandwidth (bits per second per person) Affordability Residential fixed line tariff ($ a month) Mobile cellular prepaid tariff ($ a month) Fixed broadband Internet access tariff ($ a month) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications ICT expenditure (% of GDP) E-gov’t Web measure index (0–1, 1=highest presence) Secure Internet servers (per million people)
2008
8 31 360 4.4 .. 30
10 34 350 3.2 29 51
Yes Mixed
Yes Mixed
M C C
P C C
0.9 82 17.8
.. .. ..
3.1 275 ..
0.3 0.5 0.0 0.3 9
0.2 39.1 0.1 0.5 11
4.6 28.5 1.0 1.7 ..
0.4 .. 0.1
.. .. 0.9
.. .. 4.6
.. 0.0 0
80 0.0 0
56 7.2 24
.. .. ..
3.4 3.5 800.0
9.0 10.0 102.4
0.1 1.6 2.2
0.0 5.8 11.2
2.5 6.3 ..
.. .. ..
.. 0.07 0.2
.. 0.11 0.5
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology
2010
976 29 523 5.8 69 53
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