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Intelrift Geoeconomic Index· Edition 1 · Q4 2026

Guinea

40.3

Elevated · 40+Rank 43 of 192+0.2 against the previous edition · #37 → #43Africa · Western Africa · 5 of 5 sub-indices available
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Rank in its region17 / 54Africa
Rank in its income group13 / 47Lower-middle income
Comparable countriesHondurasIGE 36.1 · distance 6.7Comparable countriesNigerIGE 39.1 · distance 7.6

Comparable countries

Nearest in the five-dimensional sub-index space (euclidean distance over shared dimensions).

What would move the score

  • Chokepoints±2.5 points
  • Sanctions±2.5 points
  • Commodity concentration±2.0 points
  • Institutional fragility±1.5 points
  • Sovereign stress±1.5 points

Change in the IGE if one sub-index moved by 10 points, with this country's effective weights.

Sub-indices against the regional and global mean

CountryRegional meanGlobal mean

Source: Intelrift, IGE. Simple means of covered countries.Data through 19 October 2026

History by edition

Hollow points are retrospectives: past years computed with the current method, without newsroom events and with the current snapshot of the sanctions lists.

Source: Intelrift, IGEData through 19 October 2026

Key factors

What drives the score

  • Reserves in months of imports: 1.3 months (2024), risk percentile 100.source
  • Control of corruption (WGI): 26.6 (2025), risk percentile 86.source
  • Logistics performance (LPI): 2.5 (2022), risk percentile 79.source
  • Fuel and food share of imports: 40.4 % (2016), risk percentile 66.source

Each factor comes from a sourced, dated input; the percentile says where the country sits among those covered.

How it is calculated

Weights, coverage and provenance

Chokepoints36Effective 25 %
Sanctions31Effective 25 %
Commodity concentration33Effective 20 %
Institutional fragility75Effective 15 %
Sovereign stress36Effective 15 %

5 of 5 sub-indices available · ige-v1

Provenance hash

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SHA-256 of the canonical JSON of the inputs, their sources and periods, the winsorisation bounds and the weights. Same inputs, same hash.

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Sub-index inputs

Chokepoints · 36.4

How much of the country's GDP depends on six maritime passages (Hormuz, Suez, Malacca, Bab el-Mandeb, Panama, Bosphorus) staying open, plus its imported-energy dependence, logistics performance and whether it is landlocked.

Exposure to the main chokepoint (2025)15.6 % of GDP · percentile 28
Total chokepoint exposure (2025)37.9 % of GDP · percentile 35
Net energy import dependenceinsufficient data
Fuel share of imports (2016)13.8 % · percentile 41
Landlocked (transit dependence) (2026)no · percentile 0
Logistics performance (LPI) (2022)2.5 · percentile 79

Sanctions · 31.2

Whether the jurisdiction is under a sanctions regime (and how intense), how many people and entities linked to the country appear on the OFAC, EU, UN and UK lists, how many on US export-control lists, and how much it trades with sanctioned partners.

Jurisdiction-level sanctions regime (2026)targeted regime · percentile 30
Designations linked to the country (2026)10 · percentile 38
Designations under country programmes (2026)10 · percentile 44
Entities under US export controls (2026)0 · percentile 0
Exposure to sanctioned partners (2023)39.8 · percentile 44

Commodity concentration · 33.4

Concentration of exports and imports by product group (Herfindahl index), fuel and food share of imports, natural resource rents over GDP and terms-of-trade volatility.

Export concentration (HHI) (2016)0.48 · percentile 35
Import concentration (HHI) (2016)0.43 · percentile 30
Fuel and food share of imports (2016)40.4 % · percentile 66
Natural resource rents (2021)4.5 % of GDP · percentile 15
Terms-of-trade volatility (2024)8.2 % · percentile 21

Institutional fragility · 75.4

Rule of law, political stability, government effectiveness and control of corruption (WGI), the INFORM index, battle deaths, homicides and new conflict displacements per capita, and the quarter's political and security events recorded by Intelrift.

Rule of law (WGI) (2025)38.7 · percentile 86
Political stability and absence of violence (WGI) (2025)52.8 · percentile 64
Government effectiveness (WGI) (2025)34 · percentile 80
Control of corruption (WGI) (2025)26.6 · percentile 86
INFORM risk index (2026)4.8 · percentile 52
Battle-related deaths per 100,000 peopleinsufficient data
Intentional homicides per 100,000 peopleinsufficient data
New conflict displacements per 1,000 peopleinsufficient data
Political and security events (90 days) (2026)81.7 · percentile 84
Terror and narco incidents (90 days) (2026)insufficient data

Sovereign stress · 36.2

Reserves in months of imports, current account balance, inflation, depreciation against the dollar, external debt and its service, short-term debt over reserves, broad money over reserves, interest over revenue and Intelrift's daily country risk.

Reserves in months of imports (2024)1.3 months · percentile 100
Current account balance (2024)-1.6 % of GDP · percentile 48
Annual inflation (2025)3.6 % · percentile 14
Annual depreciation against the dollar (2020)+4.2 % · percentile 58
External debt to GNI (2024)23.2 % · percentile 10
Debt service to exports (2024)3.7 % · percentile 2
Short-term debt to reserves (2024)28.1 % · percentile 22
Broad money to reserves (2024)5.6× · percentile 37
Interest payments to revenueinsufficient data
Intelrift daily country risk (2026)20 · percentile 35