Guinea-Bissau and Greece Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Greece
Leader
Interim president: Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo	President: Karolos Papoulias
Population
1,628,603	10,767,827
Life Expectancy
49.110 years	80.050 years
Capital City
	Athens
Largest city
Bissau (population: 388,028)	Athens (population: 729,137)
Human Development Index
0.383	0.947
GDP per capita
	$26,600 US
Literacy Rate
42.4%	96%
Corruption Perception Index
1.9	4.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
14%	14.7%
Wealthiest Citizens
NA	Spiro Latsis & family ($3.8bn US)
Unemployment Rate
	17.300%
Death Penalty
Abolished	Abolished

Political System
republic	parliamentary republic
Independence date
	1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
Religions
Muslim 50%, indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 10%	Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
Languages
Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages	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 and Senegal	Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey
Area
36,125 km sq	131,957 km sq
Coastline
350 km	13,676 km
Climate
tropical; 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-Bissau vs Greece