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Guyana — Market Overview

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🇬🇾 Guyana

Guyana is one of the clearest oil-led macro stories in the world, with production growth, infrastructure spending, and domestic capacity constraints all reshaping the economy at once. The cleanest read usually comes from oil output growth, fiscal deployment, and whether the non-oil economy can scale alongside the energy boom.

Regional map

Key facts

Guyana at a glance

Capital

Georgetown

Currency

Guyanese Dollar (GY$)

Primary exchange

Guyana market proxy

Central bank

Bank of Guyana

Region

Americas

Time zone

America/Guyana

Country dashboard

Why this market matters

This first pass is built as a reusable country page instead of a static essay. The page now combines a stylized country map, a switchable line-chart explorer, and linked peer countries so users can move from Guyana into the rest of the region without losing the macro frame.

Macro explorer

Switch variables, keep the country context

GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.

Real GDP growth

Guyana starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.

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Click a year to zoom from that point.

Available variables

Real GDP growth

33.0%
1Y trend-3.0%
Avg growth-0.9%

What This Signals

GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 3.0%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.

Trade and external position

Exports, services, and external balance

Instead of a generic macro-card wall, this section focuses on how the country earns demand from abroad, where its trade edge sits, and how the external balance is evolving.

Total trade GuyanaGY$1.6B
Goods
Services
Goods
Services
ExportGY$698.0M
GY$905.1MImport
External Balance2005
Exports +GY$698.0M
Imports -GY$905.1M
Balance-GY$207.1M
GY$698.0M
Total exports

The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Guyana is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.

GY$19.8B
Goods exports

This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.

GY$528.9M
Services exports

This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Guyana is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.

Trade composition

What the country exports

Trade partners

Where the country trades

Commodity lens

Raw-material exposure

Trade openness194.4%

Trade in goods and services equaled 194.4% of GDP in 2005. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.

Services share of exports75.8%

Services represented 75.8% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.

Manufactures share0.5%

Manufactures accounted for 0.5% of merchandise exports in 2024.

Fuel share91.9%

Fuel exports accounted for 91.9% of merchandise exports in 2024, useful for reading commodity exposure.

Food share2.0%

Food exports accounted for 2.0% of merchandise exports in 2024, adding context on agricultural exposure.

What to watch

Reading framework

01

oil production growth

Guyana should first be read through oil production growth. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.

02

fiscal deployment

The cleanest read usually comes from oil output growth, fiscal deployment, and whether the non-oil economy can scale alongside the energy boom. That makes fiscal deployment one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.

03

non-oil capacity buildout

The final layer is non-oil capacity buildout, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the Guyana Activity Proxy.

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