Living in Guinea

Guinea offers low pay by the world's measures, but the tax taken is so slight that a salary reaches you almost whole. Living is cheap, and between the two, the money covers ordinary life with a modest amount to spare. The labor side is where it gets harder, since without local ties work is tough to come by and English will rarely be the language of the job.

Guinea sends far more people abroad than it takes in, with a diaspora of about 508.2K that has grown 22% over the past decade. Guineans abroad stay largely within West Africa and its old ties to France: Côte d'Ivoire (111.6K) and France (92.4K) lead, ahead of Senegal. At home, the 108K foreign-born residents are a small share of a 14.8M population.