This week’s column continues the discussion of the Bureau of Statistics (BoS) Preliminary Population and Housing Census Report for 2012. Last week’s column had focused on the intercensal population ...

IT USED TO be a disused sawmill surrounded by fields of sugar cane. But since oil was discovered off Guyana’s coast in 2015 the 52-hectare site in Georgetown, the capital, has been transformed into ...

The Bureau of Statistics’ (BoS) Preliminary Population and Housing Census Report for 2012 announced a decline in the population from 751,223 persons at the 2002 Census to 747,884 persons. This created ...

SOUTH AMERICA (general): POPULATION Population Reference Bureau statistics and publications provide detailed coverage of Latin America and the world. The U.S. Census has an International Data Base ...

Guyana boasts a remarkably rich ecology, but also has one of South America's poorest economies. Tropical rainforests - filled with distinctive plants and trees, teeming with exotic birds, insects and ...

Guyana is located in the northern part of the South American continent. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the north, Suriname in the east, Venezuela towards the west and Brazil in the southern ...