World Bank
The World Bank provides "provide low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries." They publish extensively on individual countries as well as regions.
- Guyana Overview
- Guyana Research Reports
- Guyana Data
- Includes graphs showing historical and current GDP, population, school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, projects and operations funding from World Bank agencies, and more
- Data is downloadable as CSV, XML, and Excel files
- DataBank
- You cannot search by country, but you can select topics on the right.
- Once a topic is select, databases have have data for that topic will remain.
- Click on a database, then check the country list for Guyana. If it is not there, you can add it as well as modify the other countries that are displayed.
- International Development Agency (World Bank) Guyana report
- World Bank Open Data
- World Bank Maps
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Guyana and the IMF
- While providing some population data, the focus of the IMF reports are generally economic in nature. The reports examine influences on the financial health of the continent, the region, and the nation in attempt to identify risks and recommend policies for growth and financial stability.
What is the difference between the World Bank and the IMF?
"The World Bank Group works with developing countries to reduce poverty and increase shared prosperity, while the International Monetary Fund serves to stabilize the international monetary system and acts as a monitor of the world’s currencies."
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Country profile: Guyana
- Country strategy
- "The Government of Guyana and the IDB Group agreed on four areas of interventions for the 2017–2021 Country Strategy: (i) Establishing a modern national strategy and planning framework for undergirding the new Green State Development Strategy, including to drive economic diversification efforts and pursue modern industrial policies; (ii) Strengthening fiscal policies and the framework managing natural resource revenues; (iii) Facilitating private sector development to support the delivery of better services, mainly through enhancing the business environment; and (iv) Delivering critical infrastructure to facilitate human and private sector development."
- Specialized datasets
- Topics include:
- Agricultural and Rural Development
- Citizen Security
- Climate Change
- Economics
- Education
- Environmental & Natural Disasters
- Finance
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Fiscal Policy & Management
- Gender
- Health
- Regional Integration
- Social Investment
- Social Protection
- And more
- Indicators data
- The above link allows you to choose countries to view and/or compare indicators across countries. These DO NOT include health or access to healthcare, nor is context provided. This link goes to data only.
- The indicators DO include:
- Agriculture
- Disaster Risk Management
- Economy
- Finance
- Global Integration
- Exports
- Imports
- Tariffs
- Trade Balance
- Trade Indices
- Infrastructure
- Social Outlook topics
- Demographics
- Education
- Housing, Water, and Sanitation
- Labor Market, Poverty, and Inequality
- Public Management
- You can choose to view data for Guyana or select an indicator and topic, then compare countries.