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By Laurence Neville Thirty-four developing countries—including all of the so-called Fragile Five nations—will have elections this year. Their results will be felt not only by other emerging economies but by global markets. At the end of January, panic gripped emerging ...
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International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 3.3% | 3.2% | 3.4% | 4.6% | 8.1% | -1.7% | 3.3% |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | ||
| 1% | 6.1% | 6.3% | 5.9% | 3.8% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.003% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.1% | 1.4% | -2.6% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 61.7% | 62.5% | 57.2% | 64.3% | 69.2% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| -3.5% | -5.6% | -1.4% | -5.2% | -4.9% |
*Estimate
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Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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-4.5 % (2018 estimate)
25.3% (2018)
0.002% (2018)
0.0005% (2018)
Fish, shrimp; cashews, peanuts, palm kernels, raw and sawn lumber
Foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products
India 67.1%, Vietnam 21.1% (2017)
Portugal 47.8%, Senegal 12.1%, China 10.4%, Netherlands 8.1%, Pakistan 5.4% (2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 24 million | USD 16 million | USD 17 million |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 0.5 million | USD 0.3 million | USD 1.1 million |
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking:
174 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 161 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 177 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 182 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 132 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 152 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 114 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 155 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 146 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 171 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 168 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 135 / Score: 54 (Mostly unfree)(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Crioulo (lingua franca), Portuguese (official; largely used as a second or third language), Pular (a Fula language), Mandingo
Muslim 45.1%, Christian 22.1%, animist 14.9%, none 2%, unspecified 15.9% (2008 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020* |
| 0.96 million | 1.19 million | 1.46 million | 1.63 million | 1.82 million |
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| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
| 13.6% | 17.8% | 36.2% | 43.4% |
Total population: 59.9%
Male: 71.8%
Female: 48.3%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
84.5% (last available estimate, 2010)
50.7 (last available estimate, 2010)
Partly Free
Political Rights: 5
Civil Liberties: 4 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 0% Mobile: 79% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)