Question: Besides the PAIGC, what is the other major political party?
Answer: PRS (Party for Social Renewal)

Question: How many minor political parties are there?
Answer: more than 20

Question: What office did Sanha hold in 2012?
Answer: President

Question: How many regions does Guinea-Bissau contain?
Answer: eight

Question: How many autonomous sectors does Guinea-Bissau contain?
Answer: one

Question: How many subdivided Sectors does Guinea-Bissau contain?
Answer: 37

Question: What country is on the north border of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Senegal

Question: What country is on the south border of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Guinea

Question: What is to the west of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: What latitudes does Guinea-Bissau mostly lie between?
Answer: 11° and 13°N

Question: What longitudes does Guinea-Bissau mostly lie between?
Answer: 13° and 17°W

Question: Guinea-Bissau is larger than what two countries?
Answer: Taiwan or Belgium

Question: How high is the highest point in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 300 metres (984 ft)

Question: What archipelago lies off the mainland?
Answer: Bijagos

Question: How many square kilometers is Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 36,125

Question: Where does Guinea-Bissau get its hot dry winds from?
Answer: the Sahara

Question: What is the average rainfall in Bissau, in millimetres?
Answer: 2,024

Question: When is the rainy season in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: between June and September/October

Question: What does the country experience from December through April?
Answer: drought

Question: When is Guinea-Bissau warm?
Answer: all year around

Question: What is the average temperature in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 26.3 °C (79.3 °F)

Question: How much of the population lives below the poverty line?
Answer: More than two-thirds

Question: What are Guinea-Bissau's major exports?
Answer: fish, cashew nuts and ground nuts

Question: What per capita index does Guinea-Bissau rank as one of the lowest in the world?
Answer: GDP

Question: For what index does Guinea-Bissau rank as one of the lowest on earth?
Answer: Human Development Index

Question: What area depends on agriculture in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: The economy

Question: Political instability has resulted in what type of economic activity?
Answer: depressed

Question: Political instability has resulted in what description of social conditions?
Answer: deteriorating

Question: What type of imbalances have increased as a result of the instability?
Answer: macroeconomic

Question: How long does it take to register a business in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 233 days or about 33 weeks

Question: What is the one country that takes longer than Guinea-Bissau to register a business?
Answer: Suriname

Question: What did the main political parties sign to help the economy?
Answer: a pact of stability

Question: What organization backed a structural reform program?
Answer: IMF

Question: When did Guinea-Bissau become independent?
Answer: 1974

Question: What country left Guinea-Bissau in 1974?
Answer: Portugal

Question: What happened in Portugal that contributed to Guinea-Bissau's independence?
Answer: the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution

Question: In what year did Guinea-Bissau start to bring some internal monetary stability to the country?
Answer: 1997

Question: What did the government do in 1997 to increase monetary stability?
Answer: entered the CFA franc monetary system

Question: What years did the civil war take place?
Answer: 1998 and 1999

Question: When was there a military coup in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: September 2003

Question: When were parliamentary elections held?
Answer: March 2004

Question: When did drug traffickers begin to use Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 2005

Question: Where did the drug traffickers come from?
Answer: Latin America

Question: What was the final destination of the drugs going through Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Europe

Question: Who described Guinea-Bissau as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state"?
Answer: a United Nations official

Question: Who has done little to stop drug trafficking in the country?
Answer: The government and the military

Question: What was the population of Guinea-Bissau in 1950?
Answer: 518,000

Question: What was the population of Guinea-Bissau in 2010?
Answer: 1,515,000

Question: What is the source of the population data?
Answer: the 2010 revison of the UN World Population Prospects

Question: What percentage of the population was below the age of 15?
Answer: 41.3%

Question: What percentage of the population was 65 or older?
Answer: 3.3%

Question: What natives comprise a very small percentage of the population?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: Who left the country after Guinea-Bissau gained independence?
Answer: Portuguese nationals

Question: What ethnic group has a tiny population in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Chinese

Question: What is the name of a former Asian Portuguese colony?
Answer: Macau

Question: What is the ancestry of the Chinese population in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: mixed Portuguese and Chinese ancestry

Question: What percentage of the population speaks Kriol?
Answer: 44%

Question: What is the official language of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: How long was Guinea-Bissau under colonial rule?
Answer: centuries

Question: What type of language is Kriol?
Answer: a Portuguese-based creole language

Question: What is the second language for most Portuguese in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Kriol

Question: Why is French taught in school?
Answer: Guinea-Bissau is surrounded by French-speaking nations.

Question: What is Guinea-Bissau a full member of?
Answer: the Francophonie

Question: Who speaks both African languages and Kriol?
Answer: Most Portuguese and Mestiços

Question: In the 20th century most people practiced some form of what faith?
Answer: Animism.

Question: What religion was adopted by the population in the early 21st century?
Answer: Islam

Question: What percentage of the population now practices Islam?
Answer: 50%

Question: What denomination are the majority of Guinea-Bissau's muslims?
Answer: Sunni

Question: What sect does 2% of the population belong to?
Answer: Ahmadiyya

Question: What percentage of the population is Christian?
Answer: Approximately 10%

Question: What percentage of the population continues to hold indigenous beliefs?
Answer: 40%

Question: What forms of Islamic and Christian faiths do many residents practice?
Answer: syncretic

Question: What do many residents combine with Islamic and Christian practices?
Answer: traditional African beliefs

Question: What infection has a very small prevalence in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: HIV

Question: What percentage of the adult population has an HIV-infection?
Answer: 1.8%

Question: How many HIV-infected pregnant women receive retroviral coverage?
Answer: 20%

Question: What does retroviral coverage help prevent?
Answer: transmission to newborns

Question: Who receives retroviral coverage?
Answer: infected pregnant women

Question: What kills more residents than AIDS?
Answer: Malaria

Question: What percentage of the population has Malaria?
Answer: 9%

Question: How many more deaths does malaria cause vs. AIDS?
Answer: three times as many

Question: How many children under five slept under antimalaria nets in 2008?
Answer: fewer than half

Question: What type of drugs did many young children not have access to in 2008?
Answer: antimalarial

Question: What type of disease was reported to be on the rise in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: cholera

Question: How many died from cholera in a November 2012 report?
Answer: nine

Question: How many died from cholera in a 2008 epidemic?
Answer: 225

Question: Where are there reported cholera rates that are lowering?
Answer: surrounding countries

Question: How many people were affected by the 2008 cholera epidemic?
Answer: 14,222

Question: What was the 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births?
Answer: 1000