Guinea ranks in the top ten producers of 3 commodities: bauxite (#1, 34% of world output in 2025), peanuts (#9, 1.7% of world output in 2024), yams (#10, 0.4% of world output in 2024). It is a top-ten exporter of bauxite (#1, 72% of world export value in 2024), cocoa (#8, 2.6% of world export value in 2024).
Share of world production, 2025. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.
Guinea's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Guinea's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Guinea dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.
Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.
Guinea commodity by commodity
One page for each commodity where Guinea is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.
What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Guinea, computed from the same data as this page.
What Guinea uses
Guinea had about 14 million people and a food supply of 2,948 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:
Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Guinea, 2023
FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Guinea's cocoa (−52 thousand tonnes; production 23 thousand tonnes, imports 1 thousand tonnes, exports 76 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.
FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.
Who supplies Guinea
Single-supplier markets. Guinea buys half or more of its imports from one country in 1 of 1 import markets of $250 million or more, among them rice from India (96%, $500 million). Import dependency.
How long Guinea's own reserves would last
Bauxite: Guinea's reserves are about 49 years of its own output at the current rate (34% of world output, 26% of world reserves), against 66 years for the world.
USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.
Guinea and critical minerals
Guinea is the largest producer of 1 mineral on a US or EU critical list, each at 20% or more of world output: bauxite (34%, 2025). Source: the concentration report on USGS, FAOSTAT and Energy Institute production.
The export controls register lists 1 measure imposed by Guinea, of which 0 are in force, suspended or scheduled as of the register's date.
This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Guinea produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/GIN/ (CC BY 4.0).
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