Country Report — Edition 0 (2026)

Guinea-Bissau

Sub-Saharan Africa Tier D
GNB
Composite Score
15.5
out of 100
Rank in Edition 0
#174
Field
Out of 194 States

The five pillars

I — Constitutional & Legal Foundation
0.7 / 10
II — Technical & Operational Safeguards
2.2 / 10
III — Universal Identifier & Agent Provenance
1.3 / 10
IV — Sovereign Haven Infrastructure
1.1 / 10
V — Ecosystem, Education & Implementation
2.4 / 10

Initiatives and current posture

Guinea-Bissau places in Tier 4 of the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index 2024 — an evolving posture with limited public evidence of structured implementation. No comprehensive data-protection statute is yet in force, and no designated supervisory authority is publicly identified in the IAPP Global Privacy Directory at this Edition. On the question of artificial intelligence policy, no national AI policy is yet registered in the OECD AI Policy Observatory; on the question of open-government practice, Guinea-Bissau is not currently an Open Government Partnership member. Domestic data-center capacity is not currently surveyed by the Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE datasets at a level sufficient for ranking, and foundational digital identity coverage is not yet captured at a measurable level by the World Bank ID4D dataset.

Findings from the open-source record

With a composite of 15.5 out of 100, Guinea-Bissau sits at rank 174th out of the 194 States surveyed in Edition 0, in the lower band of the distribution. At this Edition the Custodian's open-source coverage is thinner for Guinea-Bissau than for many comparators; the assigned tier — Tier D — reflects evidence available, not an institutional verdict on the country's intentions. The pillar profile shows the country's relative strength in Ecosystem, Education & Implementation (2.4/10) and a thinner record in Constitutional & Legal Foundation (0.7/10). Guinea-Bissau is invited to engage with the Office of the Custodian to enable fuller scoring in future Editions.

What helps and what has not yet been done

The Custodian observes limited public information for this country at this Edition. The path forward is straightforward and voluntary: the designation of a National Authority under Article 8.1; a public response to the Annual Survey; the construction of the open-source legal-and-policy record from which the Index draws. The Charter holds no view, at this Edition, on the depth of the country's intentions; the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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Re-evaluation request

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Sources & References

The Custodian’s open-source coverage of Guinea-Bissau is currently sparse. The links below offer search-based starting points; if you can point us to authoritative government sources for any of the five Pillars, please submit them via the re-evaluation form below.

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