Guinea and Greece Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Greece
Leader
President: Alpha Conde	President: Karolos Papoulias
Population
11,176,026	10,772,967
Life Expectancy
59.110 years	80.180 years
Capital City
	Athens
Largest city
Camayenne (population: 1,871,240)	Athens (population: 729,137)
Human Development Index
0.423	0.947
GDP per capita
	$25,100 US
Literacy Rate
29.5%	96%
Corruption Perception Index
1.6	4.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
19.3%	14.7%
Wealthiest Citizens
NA	Spiro Latsis & family ($3.8bn US)
Unemployment Rate
	24.400%
Death Penalty
Legal	Abolished

Political System
republic	parliamentary republic
Independence date
	1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
Religions
Muslim 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefs 7%	Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
Languages
French (official); note - each ethnic group has its own language	Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French)
Exports
	food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles
External Debt
	$583,300,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.6734 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
	4.300%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
0	4
Location
Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone	Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey
Area
245,857 km sq	131,957 km sq
Coastline
320 km	13,676 km
Climate
generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds	temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers

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Guinea vs Greece