Distillers Country guides / Guinea
Guinea
A one-page guide to Guinea for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Conakry
- Official languages
- French (working language), Susu, Fulani, Malinke, Kissi, Kpelle, Toma
- Currency
- Guinean franc (GNF)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT)
- Area
- 245,857 km²
People
- Population
- 15.1 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 2.3% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 38.5%
- Aged under 15
- 40.5%
- Aged 65 and over
- 3.5%
- Life expectancy
- 60.9 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$28.3 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$1,877 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 7.45% (2025)
- Inflation
- 3.57% (2025)
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- No national minimum age reported (WHO 2018 country profile, status 2016: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/country-profiles/substances-abuse/GIN.pdf)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 0.49 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
- What people drink
- Beer 91%, wine 9% (2016)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Guinea; WHO country profile GIN. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.