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Guinea-Bissau vs Sierra Leone

102 shared metrics.

Guinea-BissauLeads in 53

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Sierra LeoneLeads in 49

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Guinea-Bissau

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

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Identity

Name origin: the country is partly named after the Guinea region of West Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea.

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Sierra Leone

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Sierra Leone.

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Identity

Name origin: Portuguese explorer Pedro de SINTRA is usually credited with naming the country "Serra da Leao" (Lion Mountains) in 1462, but Venetian explorer Alvise CA' D…

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Analysis

Guinea-Bissau leads in 53 of 102 shared metrics, while Sierra Leone leads in 49.

Guinea-Bissau's Electricity Carbon Intensity is 12.1x that of Sierra Leone (625 gCO2/kWh vs 47.62 gCO2/kWh).

Guinea-Bissau's Alcohol Consumption is 11.9x that of Sierra Leone (3.7 L/adult/yr vs 0.29 L/adult/yr).

Guinea-Bissau's Spirits Consumption is 9.4x that of Sierra Leone (0.46 L/person/yr vs 0.04 L/person/yr).

Guinea-Bissau's Water Stress (%) is 7.3x that of Sierra Leone (1.1% vs 0.13%).

Guinea-Bissau's ATMs per 100,000 Adults is 4.3x that of Sierra Leone (7.1 per 100k vs 1.3 per 100k).

Key Comparisons

Electricity Carbon IntensityGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

625 gCO2/kWh

Sierra Leone

47.62 gCO2/kWh

Alcohol ConsumptionGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

3.7 L/adult/yr

Sierra Leone

0.29 L/adult/yr

Spirits ConsumptionGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

0.46 L/person/yr

Sierra Leone

0.04 L/person/yr

Water Stress (%)Guinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

1.1%

Sierra Leone

0.13%

ATMs per 100,000 AdultsGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

7.1 per 100k

Sierra Leone

1.3 per 100k

Beer ConsumptionGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

0.46 L/person/yr

Sierra Leone

0.15 L/person/yr

All Metrics

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Guinea-Bissau

625 gCO2/kWh

Sierra Leone

47.62 gCO2/kWh

1212% higher

Alcohol Consumption

Guinea-Bissau

3.7 L/adult/yr

Sierra Leone

0.29 L/adult/yr

1186% higher

Spirits Consumption

Guinea-Bissau

0.46 L/person/yr

Sierra Leone

0.04 L/person/yr

939% higher

Water Stress (%)

Guinea-Bissau

1.1%

Sierra Leone

0.13%

725% higher

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Guinea-Bissau

7.1 per 100k

Sierra Leone

1.3 per 100k

432% higher

Beer Consumption

Guinea-Bissau

0.46 L/person/yr

Sierra Leone

0.15 L/person/yr

209% higher

Milk Consumption per Person

Guinea-Bissau

19.88 kg/person/yr

Sierra Leone

7.0 kg/person/yr

184% higher

Military Spending

Guinea-Bissau

1.2% of GDP

Sierra Leone

0.46% of GDP

167% higher

Road Traffic Death Rate

Guinea-Bissau

30.5 per 100k

Sierra Leone

13.8 per 100k

121% higher

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Guinea-Bissau

23.98%

Sierra Leone

10.9%

120% higher

Meat Consumption per Person

Guinea-Bissau

17.29 kg/person/yr

Sierra Leone

8.2 kg/person/yr

110% higher

Protected Land (%)

Guinea-Bissau

26.2%

Sierra Leone

12.6%

108% higher

Forest Coverage (%)

Guinea-Bissau

69.51%

Sierra Leone

34.3%

103% higher

Merchant Fleet Size

Sierra Leone

Guinea-Bissau

Sierra Leone

584

97% lower

Seafood Consumption per Person

Sierra Leone

Guinea-Bissau

1.1 kg/person/yr

Sierra Leone

24.7 kg/person/yr

95% lower

Doctors (per 1,000)

Guinea-Bissau

0.25 per 1k

Sierra Leone

0.13 per 1k

92% higher

Inflation Rate

Sierra Leone

Guinea-Bissau

3.8%

Sierra Leone

28.6%

87% lower

Highest Elevation

Sierra Leone

Guinea-Bissau

277 m

Sierra Leone

1.9K m

86% lower

Scientific Publications

Sierra Leone

Guinea-Bissau

14.77

Sierra Leone

86.77

83% lower

Electric Generating Capacity

Sierra Leone

Guinea-Bissau

29.0K kW

Sierra Leone

149.0K kW

81% lower

Comparison of Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone across 102 metrics
				Winner
Electricity Carbon Intensity	625 gCO2/kWh	47.62 gCO2/kWh	1212% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Alcohol Consumption	3.7 L/adult/yr	0.29 L/adult/yr	1186% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Spirits Consumption	0.46 L/person/yr	0.04 L/person/yr	939% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Water Stress (%)	1.1%	0.13%	725% higher	Guinea-Bissau
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	7.1 per 100k	1.3 per 100k	432% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Beer Consumption	0.46 L/person/yr	0.15 L/person/yr	209% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Milk Consumption per Person	19.88 kg/person/yr	7.0 kg/person/yr	184% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Military Spending	1.2% of GDP	0.46% of GDP	167% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Road Traffic Death Rate	30.5 per 100k	13.8 per 100k	121% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Safe Drinking Water (%)	23.98%	10.9%	120% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Meat Consumption per Person	17.29 kg/person/yr	8.2 kg/person/yr	110% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Protected Land (%)	26.2%	12.6%	108% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Forest Coverage (%)	69.51%	34.3%	103% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Merchant Fleet Size	20	584	97% lower	Sierra Leone
Seafood Consumption per Person	1.1 kg/person/yr	24.7 kg/person/yr	95% lower	Sierra Leone
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.25 per 1k	0.13 per 1k	92% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Inflation Rate	3.8%	28.6%	87% lower	Sierra Leone
Highest Elevation	277 m	1.9K m	86% lower	Sierra Leone
Scientific Publications	14.77	86.77	83% lower	Sierra Leone
Electric Generating Capacity	29.0K kW	149.0K kW	81% lower	Sierra Leone
Population	2.13M	9.33M	77% lower	Sierra Leone
Total CO2 Emissions	0.34 Mt CO2e	1.5 Mt CO2e	77% lower	Sierra Leone
Liberal Democracy Index	0.10	0.35	73% lower	Sierra Leone
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	1.2% of GDP	3.9% of GDP	69% lower	Sierra Leone
GDP (Nominal)	$2,218,393,804.55	$6,971,127,235.31	68% lower	Sierra Leone
Health Spending Per Capita	$66.05	$39.32	68% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Women in Parliament (%)	9.8%	29.53%	67% lower	Sierra Leone
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.19 per 100k people	0.49 per 100k people	62% lower	Sierra Leone
Electricity Generation	0.08 TWh	0.21 TWh	62% lower	Sierra Leone
Land Area	28.1K km²	72.2K km²	61% lower	Sierra Leone
Internet Users (%)	33%	21%	57% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Obesity Rate	10.08%	6.5%	56% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Armed Forces Personnel	4.0K	9.0K	56% lower	Sierra Leone
Firms Asked for Bribes	27.64% of firms	17.96% of firms	54% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Official Languages Count	1.0	2.0	50% lower	Sierra Leone
Electoral Democracy Index	0.25	0.47	46% lower	Sierra Leone
Political Corruption Index	0.83	0.57	45% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Agricultural Land (%)	29.89%	54.71%	45% lower	Sierra Leone
Firms with Female Top Manager	7.5% of firms	12.96% of firms	42% lower	Sierra Leone
Corruption Perceptions Index	21 pts	34 pts	38% lower	Sierra Leone
Women's Political Empowerment	0.50	0.80	37% lower	Sierra Leone
Smoking Rate	8.2%	12.9%	36% lower	Sierra Leone
Population Density	76.58 /km²	117.21 /km²	35% lower	Sierra Leone
Insufficient Physical Activity	17.73% of adults	13.14% of adults	35% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Freedom of Expression Index	0.55	0.82	33% lower	Sierra Leone
Exports (% GDP)	11.85% of GDP	17.27% of GDP	31% lower	Sierra Leone
Fertility Rate	4.6 children/woman	3.5 children/woman	30% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Land Border Length	762 km	1.1K km	30% lower	Sierra Leone
Child Mortality	69.3 per 1k births	94.3 per 1k births	27% lower	Sierra Leone
Suicide Rate	7.7 per 100k	6.1 per 100k	25% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Youth Unemployment Rate	2.8% of youth labor force	3.7% of youth labor force	24% lower	Sierra Leone
Tobacco Use Prevalence	8.3% of adults	10.8% of adults	23% lower	Sierra Leone
Infant Mortality	43.1 per 1k births	56.2 per 1k births	23% lower	Sierra Leone
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	22 days/yr	18 days/yr	22% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Renewable Energy (%)	87.4%	71.6%	22% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Forest Area	19.5K km²	24.8K km²	21% lower	Sierra Leone
GNI Per Capita	$990	$820	21% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Death Rate	7.0 per 1k	8.8 per 1k	21% lower	Sierra Leone
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	128.11 per 100 people	108 per 100 people	19% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Birth Rate	35.82 per 1k	30.04 per 1k	19% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Water Withdrawal	0.17 B m³	0.21 B m³	18% lower	Sierra Leone
Irrigated Land	250 km²	300 km²	17% lower	Sierra Leone
Imports (% GDP)	26.96% of GDP	23.28% of GDP	16% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Sanitation Access (%)	28.94%	24.91%	16% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Unemployment Rate	2.6%	3.1%	16% lower	Sierra Leone
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	50.21 µg/m³	43.22 µg/m³	16% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Electricity Access (%)	40.5%	35.5%	14% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Coastline Length	350 km	402 km	13% lower	Sierra Leone
Women in Senior Management	25.58% of managers	22.57% of managers	13% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Teen Birth Rate	81.98 per 1k	93.59 per 1k	12% lower	Sierra Leone
Nurses & Midwives	0.99 per 1k	1.1 per 1k	12% lower	Sierra Leone
Airports	7.0	8.0	12% lower	Sierra Leone
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$3,119.37	$3,522.31	11% lower	Sierra Leone
Firms Making Informal Payments	26.74% of firms	24.14% of firms	11% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Human Development Index	0.51	0.47	10% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Firms Hit by Power Outages	72.18% of firms	66.22% of firms	9% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Hypertension Prevalence	38.8% of adults	41.8% of adults	7% lower	Sierra Leone
CO2 Per Capita	0.16 t/person/yr	0.17 t/person/yr	6% lower	Sierra Leone
Government Debt (% GDP)	57.9% of GDP	54.9% of GDP	5% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Average Weekly Work Hours	42.99 hrs/week	41.15 hrs/week	4% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Life Expectancy	64.1 years	61.8 years	4% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Dependency Ratio	72.35% of working-age pop.	70.45% of working-age pop.	3% higher	Guinea-Bissau
GDP Growth Rate	4.1%	4.3%	3% lower	Sierra Leone
Median Age	18.9 years	19.3 years	2% lower	Sierra Leone
Health Spending (% GDP)	8.1% of GDP	7.9% of GDP	2% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Youth Population (%)	38.79%	38.09%	2% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Elderly Population (%)	3.2%	3.2%	2% lower	Sierra Leone
Urban Population (%)	46.11%	45.36%	2% higher	Guinea-Bissau
Time Zones Count	2.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	equal	Guinea-Bissau
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Guinea-Bissau
Wind Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Guinea-Bissau
Solar Electricity Share	0%	9.5%	ranked lower	Sierra Leone
Broadband Access (%)	202 per 100 people	202 per 100 people	equal	Guinea-Bissau
Capital Elevation	0 m	26 m	ranked lower	Sierra Leone
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Guinea-Bissau
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Guinea-Bissau
Informal Employment Share	94.77% of employed people	94.47% of employed people	equal	Guinea-Bissau
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-6.2% of GDP	-5.1% of GDP	ranked lower	Sierra Leone
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	1.0 sites	1.0 sites	equal	Guinea-Bissau
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Guinea-Bissau
Food Waste per Person	133.09 kg/person/yr	132.88 kg/person/yr	equal	Guinea-Bissau
Border Neighbors	2.0	2.0	equal	Guinea-Bissau

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Analysis

Guinea-Bissau leads in 53 of 102 shared metrics, while Sierra Leone leads in 49.

Guinea-Bissau's Electricity Carbon Intensity is 12.1x that of Sierra Leone (625 gCO2/kWh vs 47.62 gCO2/kWh).

Guinea-Bissau's Alcohol Consumption is 11.9x that of Sierra Leone (3.7 L/adult/yr vs 0.29 L/adult/yr).

Guinea-Bissau's Spirits Consumption is 9.4x that of Sierra Leone (0.46 L/person/yr vs 0.04 L/person/yr).

Guinea-Bissau's Water Stress (%) is 7.3x that of Sierra Leone (1.1% vs 0.13%).

Guinea-Bissau's ATMs per 100,000 Adults is 4.3x that of Sierra Leone (7.1 per 100k vs 1.3 per 100k).

Key Comparisons

Electricity Carbon IntensityGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

625 gCO2/kWh

Sierra Leone

47.62 gCO2/kWh

Alcohol ConsumptionGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

3.7 L/adult/yr

Sierra Leone

0.29 L/adult/yr

Spirits ConsumptionGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

0.46 L/person/yr

Sierra Leone

0.04 L/person/yr

Water Stress (%)Guinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

1.1%

Sierra Leone

0.13%

ATMs per 100,000 AdultsGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

7.1 per 100k

Sierra Leone

1.3 per 100k

Beer ConsumptionGuinea-Bissau leads

Guinea-Bissau

0.46 L/person/yr

Sierra Leone

0.15 L/person/yr

Electricity Carbon Intensity

625 gCO2/kWh

47.62 gCO2/kWh

Alcohol Consumption

3.7 L/adult/yr

0.29 L/adult/yr

Spirits Consumption

0.46 L/person/yr

0.04 L/person/yr

Water Stress (%)

1.1%

0.13%

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

7.1 per 100k

1.3 per 100k

Beer Consumption

0.46 L/person/yr

0.15 L/person/yr

Milk Consumption per Person

19.88 kg/person/yr

7.0 kg/person/yr

Military Spending

1.2% of GDP

0.46% of GDP

Road Traffic Death Rate

30.5 per 100k

13.8 per 100k

Safe Drinking Water (%)

23.98%

10.9%

Meat Consumption per Person

17.29 kg/person/yr

8.2 kg/person/yr

Protected Land (%)

26.2%

12.6%

Forest Coverage (%)

69.51%

34.3%

Merchant Fleet Size

584

Seafood Consumption per Person

1.1 kg/person/yr

24.7 kg/person/yr

Doctors (per 1,000)

0.25 per 1k

0.13 per 1k

Inflation Rate

3.8%

28.6%

Highest Elevation

277 m

1.9K m

Scientific Publications

14.77

86.77

Electric Generating Capacity

29.0K kW

149.0K kW

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Alcohol Consumption

Spirits Consumption

Water Stress (%)

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Beer Consumption

Milk Consumption per Person

Military Spending

Road Traffic Death Rate

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Meat Consumption per Person

Protected Land (%)

Forest Coverage (%)

Merchant Fleet Size

Seafood Consumption per Person

Doctors (per 1,000)

Inflation Rate

Highest Elevation

Scientific Publications

Electric Generating Capacity

Population

Total CO2 Emissions

Liberal Democracy Index

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

GDP (Nominal)

Health Spending Per Capita

Women in Parliament (%)

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Electricity Generation

Land Area

Internet Users (%)

Obesity Rate

Armed Forces Personnel

Firms Asked for Bribes

Official Languages Count

Electoral Democracy Index

Political Corruption Index

Agricultural Land (%)

Firms with Female Top Manager

Corruption Perceptions Index

Women's Political Empowerment

Smoking Rate

Population Density

Insufficient Physical Activity

Freedom of Expression Index

Exports (% GDP)

Fertility Rate

Land Border Length

Child Mortality

Suicide Rate

Youth Unemployment Rate

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Infant Mortality

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Renewable Energy (%)

Forest Area

GNI Per Capita

Death Rate

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Birth Rate

Water Withdrawal

Irrigated Land

Imports (% GDP)

Sanitation Access (%)

Unemployment Rate

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Electricity Access (%)

Coastline Length

Women in Senior Management

Teen Birth Rate

Nurses & Midwives

Airports