Fakta om Guyana

1. Navn og floder: Navnet 'Guyana' stammer fra det indianske ord 'Guiana', som betyder "landet med mange floder". De 4 længste floder i Guyana er Essequibo, Courantyne, Berbice og Demerara (Essequibo er den længste)
2. Hollændere: I 1600-tallet blev Guyana en hollandsk koloni, hvor hollænderne byggede diesystemer til at håndtere floderne og etablere landbrug
3. Britere: I 1815 overtog briterne magten i Guyana, hvilket resulterede i at landet herefter blev kaldt Britisk Guyana. Først i 1966 blev Guyana uafhængige af det britiske kongedømme
4. Befolkningssammensætning: Guyanas befolkning består primært af indere (hindustani /østindere) og afrikanere (hhv. 43,5% og 30,2%), der alle er efterkommere af de slaver hollænderne og briterne bragte til landet før i tiden. Herudover findes der også folk af blandet herkomst (16,7%) samt oprindelige indianere (9,1%)
5. Kystområdet: Omkring 90% af Guyanas befolkning bor på en smal del af landets kystområde, der udgør ca. 10% af landets totale areal
6. Motto: Guyanas nationale motto er: 'One People, One Nation, One Destiny', hvilket betyder "Et Folk, En Nation, En Skæbne"
7. Regnskov: Omkring 70% af Guyanas areal er dækket af regnskov
8. Flag: Guyanas flag kaldes også 'The Golden Arrow Head', hvilket betyder "Den Gyldne Spydspids". Flaget har været i brug siden 1966, da Guyana vandt sin uafhængighed fra briterne
9. Jim Jones: Den 18. november 1978 begik den amerikanske religiøse kultleder Jim Jones kollektivt selvmord sammen med sine 909 følgere i Jonestown, Guyana. Denne tragedie gjorde landet verdenskendt
10. Sport: Den største sportsgren i Guyana er cricket og i de internationale cricket-konkurrencer er landet er en del af 'West Indies cricket team', som tidligere var det absolut stærkeste hold i verden

Attribution: John+Elaine Chesterton + madmack66 + sorenriise – Flickr.com

Der findes en del floder i Guyana, hvilket også er grunden til at det kaldes ‘Land of many waters' (de mange vandes land). På billedet i midten ses ‘Kaieteur Falls'

Geografiske fakta

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• Plant species (higher), threatened: 30 (2018)
• Rural land area (sq. km): n/a
• Surface area (sq. km): 214970 (2018)
• Urban land area (sq. km): n/a

Demografiske fakta

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• Electric power consumption (kWh per capita): n/a
• Employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate): 6.9429998397827 (2019)
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• Food exports (% of merchandise exports): n/a
• Urban land area (sq. km): n/a
• Food production index (2004-2006 = 100): n/a
• Households and NPISHs Final consumption expenditure, PPP (current international $): 4537976406.186 (2019)
• Hospital beds (per 1,000 people): n/a
• Income share held by highest 10%: n/a
• Income share held by lowest 10%: n/a
• Individuals using the Internet (% of population): n/a
• International tourism, number of arrivals: n/a
• International tourism, number of departures: n/a
• Labor force with basic education (% of total working-age population with basic education): n/a
• Labor force with intermediate education (% of total working-age population with intermediate education): n/a
• Labor force, total: 316951 (2019)
• Life expectancy at birth, female (years): n/a
• Life expectancy at birth, male (years): n/a
• Life expectancy at birth, total (years): n/a
• Listed domestic companies, total: n/a
• Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above): n/a
• Mammal species, threatened: n/a
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people): n/a
• Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people): n/a
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• New business density (new registrations per 1,000 people ages 15-64): n/a
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• Physicians (per 1,000 people): n/a
• Population density (people per sq. km of land area): n/a
• Population in largest city: n/a
• Population growth (annual %): 0.48176201056031 (2019)
• Population, total: 782766 (2019)
• Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population): n/a
• Prevalence of HIV, total (% of population ages 15-49): n/a
• Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%): n/a
• Rail lines (total route-km): n/a
• Railways, passengers carried (million passenger-km): n/a
• Rural population (% of total population): 73.311 (2019)
• Rural population growth (annual %): 0.36871678894757 (2019)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross): n/a
• Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population): n/a
• Smoking prevalence, total (ages 15+): n/a
• Teenage mothers (% of women ages 15-19 who have had children or are currently pregnant): n/a
• Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, 15+ years of age): n/a
• Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate): n/a
• Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate): n/a
• Hospital beds (per 1,000 people): 26.689 (2019)
• Urban population growth (annual %): 0.79294172408363 (2019)
• Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate): 67.543998718262 (2019)

Guyana's økonomi

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• Current health expenditure (% of GDP): n/a
• Deposit interest rate (%): 26.689 (2019)
• Ease of doing business score (0 = lowest performance to 100 = best performance): 0.79294172408363 (2019)
• GDP (current US$): 67.543998718262 (2019)
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• Merchandise imports (current US$): n/a
• Military expenditure (% of GDP): n/a
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• Net ODA received per capita (current US$): n/a
• Social contributions (% of revenue): n/a
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