Key Stats
| Category | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Continent: | Africa |
| Capital: | Bissau |
| Population: | 2,250,000 |
| % Urban: | 46.3 % |
| Population Under 15 Yrs: | 42 % |
| Official Language: | Portuguese. National language Portuguese Creole, spoken by as much as half the population |
| Languages: | 25 |
| Literacy Rate: | 55 % |
| Life Expectancy: | 59.7 yrs (221/236) |
| HDI Ranking: | 177 / 189 |
| % Christian: | 10.9 % |
| % Evangelical: | 1.6 % |
| Largest Religion: | Muslim |
| % Largest Religion: | 52.1 % |
| People Groups: | 29 |
| Least Reached People Groups: | 16 |
| % Unevangelized: | 53 % |
Resources
Guinea-Bissau
Church leadership is solid, mature and indigenous, with increasingly well-organized training programmes for general discipleship and for pastoral training. The Bible Institute of the Evangelical Church is key to this process, with evening Bible classes and sponsorship of promising pastors to study in Brazil. But poorer and more remote rural congregations are much less appealing to workers and are therefore neglected. Those who do minister rurally must often care for several congregations at once. Pray for the vision of the evangelical Church to be fulfilled, and for trained, passionate national workers to go to the remote and unreached parts of Guinea-Bissau and to the entire region.
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