Guinea Population
Guinea had an estimated population of 15,099,727 in mid-2025 (World Bank), making it the 74th most populous of 217 countries and territories, with 0.18% of everyone alive. The counter above projects that figure forward at the current growth rate of +2.31% a year.
Guinea at a glance
How Guinea's population is changing
Guinea's population is growing fast: +2.31% a year, which works out to about +348,943 people per year, or +955 a day. Births (33.3 per 1,000) and deaths (9.0 per 1,000) alone would give +2.43% a year; net migration removes about 16,282 people a year (â0.11%). Roughly one in every 544 people on Earth lives in Guinea.
Population of Guinea since 1960
In 1960, Guinea had 3,556,749 people. By 2025 that was 15,099,727 â 4.2Ă larger. The fastest growth came between 1986 and 1996, when the population rose by 35%.
| Year | Population | Change vs previous row |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 3,556,749 | â |
| 1970 | 4,277,535 | +20.3% |
| 1980 | 5,047,419 | +18.0% |
| 1990 | 6,434,374 | +27.5% |
| 2000 | 8,428,832 | +31.0% |
| 2010 | 10,396,086 | +23.3% |
| 2020 | 13,371,183 | +28.6% |
| 2025 | 15,099,727 | +12.9% |
Guinea from 1800 to 2100
Modelled estimates put Guinea at about 983,959 people in 1800; the UN estimates 15,099,731 in 2025 (15Ă 1800) and projects 32,007,045 for 2100 in its medium scenario. That is still 112% growth over the rest of this century.
| Year | Population | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| 1800 | 983,959 | modelled estimate |
| 1850 | 1,030,853 | modelled estimate |
| 1900 | 1,533,203 | modelled estimate |
| 1950 | 3,013,177 | UN estimate |
| 2000 | 8,428,837 | UN estimate |
| 2025 | 15,099,731 | UN projection |
| 2050 | 23,404,593 | UN projection |
| 2075 | 29,650,855 | UN projection |
| 2100 | 32,007,045 | UN projection |
Country live/base figures use World Bank estimates; this historical/future chart uses a separate UN series and need not match the World Bank base in overlapping years. Before 1950: HYDE 3.3 / Gapminder reconstructions via Our World in Data â historical modelling, not censuses. 1950â2023: UN World Population Prospects 2024. 2024â2100: UN medium projection. Open the time machine to see the whole map in any year.
Largest listed places in Guinea
10 records sorted by displayed base population. Definitions vary (province/administrative unit, UN urban centre or GeoNames settlement); this is not a harmonised city ranking. Shares use World Bank 2025 country population 15,099,727. Dates and boundaries may differ. Overlapping entities are not summed.
| # | Place | Population | Definition | Share | Source / reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conakry | 1,928,389 | GeoNames settlement | 12.77% | GeoNames settlement record; Population reference date not supplied in local record |
| 2 | Siguiri | 297,453 | UN urban centre | 1.97% | UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; 2025 annual estimate |
| 3 | Kankan | 296,159 | UN urban centre | 1.96% | UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; 2025 annual estimate |
| 4 | Nzérékoré | 272,866 | UN urban centre | 1.81% | UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; 2025 annual estimate |
| 5 | Labé | 208,325 | UN urban centre | 1.38% | UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; 2025 annual estimate |
| 6 | Kindia | 206,850 | UN urban centre | 1.37% | UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; 2025 annual estimate |
| 7 | Manéah | 194,297 | GeoNames settlement | 1.29% | GeoNames settlement record; Population reference date not supplied in local record |
| 8 | Dubréka | 182,296 | GeoNames settlement | 1.21% | GeoNames settlement record; Population reference date not supplied in local record |
| 9 | Dixinn | 137,287 | GeoNames settlement | 0.91% | GeoNames settlement record; Population reference date not supplied in local record |
| 10 | Kamsar | 133,696 | UN urban centre | 0.89% | UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025; 2025 annual estimate |
How Guinea compares
Guinea has almost the same population as Benin (14,814,460).
| Rank | Country | Population | vs Guinea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #72 |  Cambodia | 17,847,982 | +18% | compare â |
| #73 |  Zimbabwe | 16,950,795 | +12% | compare â |
| #75 |  Benin | 14,814,460 | â2% | compare â |
| #76 |  Rwanda | 14,569,341 | â4% | compare â |
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Same region (Sub-Saharan Africa): Nigeria, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya.
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Land neighbours (6)
Ivory Coast 32,711,547 · 2.2à the population · compare
Mali 25,198,821 · 1.7à the population · compare
Senegal 18,931,966 · 1.3à the population · compare
Sierra Leone 8,819,794 · 1.7à smaller · compare
Liberia 5,731,206 · 2.6à smaller · compare
Guinea-Bissau 2,249,515 · 6.7à smaller · compare
Guinea's 6 neighbours together hold 93,642,849 people â 6.2Ă Guinea's population. The most populous is Ivory Coast (32,711,547).
In its region
Guinea is the 24th most populous of the 48 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, holding 1.1% of the region's 1,321,654,217 people.
Rankings featuring Guinea
Cities
Conakry, Siguiri, Kankan, NzĂ©rĂ©korĂ©, LabĂ©, Kindia, ManĂ©ah, DubrĂ©ka â all Guinea's cities on the map.
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