Comprehensive social and demographics data are not collected routinely in Guyana, although a meager Sub-set may be available to specialized government unities for internal use. No one knows, for example, the size of country's population or its relative ethnic composition. With the aid of...

Guyana is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in terms of level of human development and state of health. Infectious diseases were the leading causes of death until the 1950s, a continuation of a trend from the previous century. From 1911 to the early 1950s, the...

Guyana’s population has been contracting for years now, particularly its Indian component which is still the largest. Indians are concentrated in four regions, where close to 70 percent of them live. Africans are highly concentrated in Regions 4 and 10, where two-thirds of them live. Mixed...