Guyana
Guyana in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Guyana recorded GDP per capita: 32,414 (2025), ranking 53 of 212 worldwide; Population: 835,986 (2025), ranking 164 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 70.3 (2024), ranking 151 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 3.33% (2025), ranking 85 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+15819%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-75%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
It sits close to the world median across the measures below. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 10 of 19 comparable series are higher and 9 are lower.
Its population of 835,986 (2025) makes it one of the smallest populations in this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 27,097,477,218.23 | 2025 | +15819.4% |
| GDP per capita | 32,413.79 | 2025 | +10738.0% |
| GDP growth | 19.34% | 2025 | +312.3% |
| Population | 835,986 | 2025 | +46.9% |
| Population growth | 0.59% | 2025 | -74.8% |
| Urban population | 26.49% | 2025 | -8.7% |
| Life expectancy | 70.32 | 2024 | +22.3% |
| Infant mortality | 23.2 | 2024 | -67.6% |
| CO2 per capita | 4.56 | 2024 | +113.2% |
| GDP (PPP) | 81,842,203,126.54 | 2025 | +3511.9% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 97,899.01 | 2025 | +3140.0% |
| Labor participation | 54.99% | 2025 | -7.5% |
| Unemployment | 11.96% | 2025 | -1.1% |
| Inflation | 3.33% | 2025 | -72.7% |
| Electricity access | 93% | 2024 | +28.5% |
| Internet users | 83% | 2024 | — |
| Forest area | 87.09% | 2023 | -7.8% |
| Health spending | 2.47% | 2023 | -22.6% |
| Education spending | 4.45% | 2018 | +2.8% |