What they reported
Sustained GDP growth of 5.7% and 5.1% in 2024 and 2025, with macroeconomic stabilization.
A national road network of 2,755 km, of which only 770 km (27.5%) is paved.
Priorities and asks
Financing development is called the major challenge, alongside a new National Development Plan to 2035.
What stands out
The review is framed around structural vulnerability, with an economy narrowly dependent on cashew monoculture.
The data angle
In 2022 only 27.9% of the indicators needed to monitor the SDGs from a gender perspective were available.
Read more
- Voluntary National Reviews 2026, the full brief with all 36 countries and the cross-cutting themes.
- Official VNR country database, home of Guinea-Bissau’s full report and main messages.
- HLPF 2026 coverage, where the reviews are presented.
This summary is drawn from Guinea-Bissau’s own 2026 main messages; figures are as the government reported them and were not independently verified. The main messages were reviewed in French and translated. Edition is noted only where the country states its own.