Guinea
Population (World Bank): 14,190,612 (2023)
Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 25.8% (2016)
Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 0 Mb/d (2024)
Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 181
2021 Resource Governance Index Score, Mining Sector (NRGI): 62/100
EITI Status: High
Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)
Policy documents that include local content relevant provisions:
Decree regulating the Local Economic Development Fund (FODEL), 2017 (French)
Petroleum Code, 2014 (French)
Local Content Relevant News:
August 2022 – West Africa to Improve Local Content through Extractives Industry
April 2022 – Foreign Mining companies ordered to process bauxite on site
2021 – Guinea: We Must Make Local Content a Priority (French)
2021 – President Alpha Condé Sets the Rules governing Local Content (French)
June 2021 – Guinea Records Progress in Mining Governance in the Midst of the Sector’s Boom (French)
March 2021 – Making the Mining Sector a Lever for Local Development in Guinea (French)
June 2020 – Subcontracting and Partnership Exchange Strengthening Local Content (French)
Analysis and Case Studies:
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) (2022) – Strategy development for using potentials and overcoming barriers to increase local content related to the mining sector of the Mano River Union (English | French)
Toroskainen (2022) – Local Content – How Mano River Union Member States can Benefit from the Growing Interest in West Africa’s Mining Sector
Wilhelm (2022) – “Local Content is politics”: An examination of the origins of local content policies in Guinea’s mining sector
Maconachie and Wilhelm (2021) – Exploring Local Content in Guinea's Bauxite Sector: Obstacles, Opportunities and Future Trajectories (Paywall)
International Finance Corporation (IFC) (2020) – Creating Markets in Guinea: Country Private Sector Diagnostic
Wilhelm (2019) – An Actor-oriented Assessment of Guinea's Local Content Policies (LCP): Opportunities and Obstacles for the Government, Mining Companies and Civil Society (Paywall)
Lado and Toroskai (2019) – In a Natural Resource Governance Institute Blogspot, Kaisa Toroskai and Hervé Lado Describe how EITI Data Can Support Guinea’s Efforts to Promote Local Mining Subcontractors
Natural Resource Governance Institute (2019) – Support Mechanisms for Local Development in Mining Legislation in Guinea (French)
KPMG Global Mining Institute (2014) – Guinea Country Mining Guide
Relevant Initiatives:
The Supplier and Partnership Marketplace
Simandou Iron Ore Project with Rio Tinto
IFC Acquires Stake in Guinean Iron Ore Project