Guyana
Trott Bailey Family Abundance · Country Profile
Guyana
Data updatedEvidence through 5 Oct 2026Money Gate 20 · Overall Gate 0.7.0 Money Gate 20 Food, Housing / Land, Healthcare, Transportation and Water / Energy are four points each. All five must reach 4/4 before the country can cross zero. Money may still exist as an exchange tool; it cannot remain the permission slip for these five basics. Read Money Is a Weak Civilization Engine
Five basics stand between this country and zero
This profile has a direct five-part Money Gate audit. Any category below 4/4 keeps the whole country below zero.
9% weightHuman Time & Burden Return
+30.5Base +27.5 · Adoption +3.0
Base +27.5 · Adoption +3.0
Whether productivity, infrastructure and institutions return usable lifetime to people and families.
TBFC target: Necessary contribution should not require people to sell most of their waking life merely to retain access to food, shelter, care and ordinary family life.
Access-gate research question: How much paid work or income-producing activity is required before an ordinary household can keep access to basic life, and what usable family time remains afterward?
Abundance Gap: +69.5
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. The live review treats labour-market access as only one part of time abundance: paid employment and income remain the main route to essentials, so employment is not counted as returned family time by itself.
World Bank Data — Guyana
8% weightHousing, Shelter & Housing Reach
+27.5
Whether adequate shelter physically exists and actually reaches people without excessive cost, exclusion or vacancy mismatch.
TBFC target: Adequate family shelter should remain reachable without lifetime dependence on rent, mortgage debt or ability to pay.
Access-gate research question: What share of ordinary shelter access depends on rent, mortgage debt, purchase price or other recurring payment, and what dependable non-market routes exist at national scale?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Housing capacity exists, but adequacy, affordability, resilience and geographic reach remain uneven; shelter remains substantially money- and location-gated.
World Bank Data — Guyana
9% weightFood, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance
+35.5
Physical food and nutrient capacity, nourishment reach, waste/loss, public edible landscapes and free food access.
TBFC target: Nutritious food should exist in multiplying abundance and remain reachable even when a household has no money to spend.
Access-gate research question: Can people obtain adequate nutritious food when they cannot pay, and are free/public/productive-food routes large enough to be ordinary rather than exceptional?
Abundance Gap: +15.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. The food audit distinguishes physical production from nourishment reach. The cited food-security source shows that market access, shocks, nutrition or import exposure still matter, so domestic capacity is not treated as universal food abundance.
FAOLEX Guyana country profile
6% weightWater & Sanitation Abundance
+27.5
Safe water, sanitation, reliability, capture, reuse, storage and living-landscape water capacity.
TBFC target: Safe water and sanitation should be dependable life infrastructure, not conditional on household purchasing power.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain safe water and sanitation when income falls, and which payment, disconnection or infrastructure barriers interrupt access?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Water and sanitation systems are expanding, but the cited WASH evidence shows that safe, reliable service does not yet reach everyone equally; climate, distance or infrastructure gaps remain material.
UNICEF Guyana & Suriname — What we do
5% weightEnergy & Household Capability
+35.5
Whether usable, reliable energy reaches households and removes burdens across water, food, health, cooling, cooking and movement.
TBFC target: Essential household energy should support cooking, cooling, water, food preservation and care without money becoming the switch that turns basic capability on or off.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain essential energy for cooking, cooling, water and food preservation when they cannot pay, and how often does price or disconnection reduce capability?
Abundance Gap: +15.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Energy capacity and access are real but reliability, affordability, import dependence, rural reach or climate exposure still limit household capability.
World Bank Data — Guyana
7% weightHealth & Care Reach
+27.5
Whether prevention, primary care, medicine, maternity care, dentistry and specialist capability reach people when needed.
TBFC target: Prevention, maternity, dentistry, medicine and necessary treatment should be reachable because care is needed, not because payment can be produced.
Access-gate research question: Can necessary care be obtained because it is needed, or do price, insurance, employment, debt or other financial tests materially delay or prevent access?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. The health system has functioning public capability, but WHO evidence supports a conservative reach score because service quality, distance, workforce, disease burden or financial/logistical barriers remain material.
WHO — Guyana
6% weightEducation & Human Capability
+27.5
Foundational learning plus practical, technical and enduring civilization capability retained by people.
TBFC target: Foundational learning and useful capability should be reachable as part of civilization life rather than purchased according to family income.
Access-gate research question: Which essential learning and capability routes are genuinely reachable regardless of family income, and where do fees, debt or paid enrichment create decisive access gaps?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Education institutions reach large parts of the population, but access, learning quality, retention and remote/disadvantaged-child gaps prevent school presence from being treated as full human capability.
UNICEF Guyana & Suriname — What we do
4% weightMobility & Reachability
+19.5
Local, regional and national movement that connects people to family, services, work, learning and public life without consuming excessive time.
TBFC target: Ordinary local and regional movement should be available for family, care, learning and civic life without travel becoming a paywall.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary people reach family, care, learning and public life without high recurring fares, vehicle costs, debt or fuel dependence?
Abundance Gap: +18.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Transport infrastructure creates national and regional movement capacity, but distance, road quality, cost, reliability and last-mile access still consume household time and money.
World Bank Data — Guyana
8% weightFamily Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
Fertility agenda · target 5.0
Family continuity is measured partly by whether children are actually multiplying. New and re-reviewed profiles use total fertility as 40% of Family Formation: 2.1 births per woman is the replacement floor and earns positive but limited credit; the authored target is 5.0.
Read A Civilization Built for Mothers and Fathers
+29.6
Conditions that let people form stable families, raise children, share parental time and continue family life without punishing material barriers.
TBFC target: People should be able to form, continue and multiply family life. Trott Bailey Family Civilization uses 5.0 children per woman as the fertility target; 2.1 is the replacement floor, not the aspiration, while housing, care, food and time should not be withheld behind financial thresholds.
Access-gate research question: How strongly do housing, childcare, health, food and work-income requirements delay or destabilize family formation and continuity, and is total fertility moving above replacement toward the 5.0-children-per-woman civilization target?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage. Re-audited 2026-10-06 under Family Fertility Method 1.0.0: prior lived-family score 27.50 weighted 60%, TFR 2.400 (2024) gives fertility performance 32.76/100 weighted 40%, producing 29.60.
Published indicators
World Bank / World Development Indicators — Total fertility rate · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Family stability is constrained where poverty, food, housing, employment, care and public-service gaps fall directly on children and caregivers; the score therefore reflects continuity of family life, not income alone.
UNICEF Guyana & Suriname — What we do
5% weightLand Access & Spatial Freedom
+36.0
Whether land and settlement choice reach ordinary people rather than opportunity being functionally trapped inside expensive commercial centres.
TBFC target: Suitable productive land and settlement opportunity should not be functionally reserved for those able to outbid everyone else.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary families gain secure use of suitable productive ground without first accumulating enough money to purchase, finance or outbid others?
Abundance Gap: +45.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Physical land and productive-ground capacity can be large even where ordinary families face tenure, purchase, lease, regulatory or location barriers. The score separates land existence from secure usable access.
World Bank Data — Guyana
6% weightPeace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight
+27.5
Peace of mind, social support, everyday safety, public beauty, recreation, nature, culture and delight reachable without constant payment.
TBFC target: Beauty, nature, recreation, rest and public delight should belong to ordinary life rather than appearing mainly after payment.
Access-gate research question: How much everyday rest, nature, recreation, culture and public beauty is freely reachable, rather than principally accessed through paid venues, travel or private property?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Nature, culture and public life create real potential for delight, but safety, poverty, climate stress, service burden or unequal access keep everyday peace of mind from being assumed nationally.
World Bank Data — Guyana
6% weightLiving Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience
+47.8
Whether soil, forests, wetlands, habitat, pollinators, species and water-holding landscapes are strengthening rather than being consumed.
TBFC target: Regenerating soil, water, habitat and food-bearing landscapes should be maintained as shared life-supporting capacity rather than only where a transaction makes them profitable.
Access-gate research question: Are regenerative land, water and habitat functions maintained as life-supporting infrastructure even when no direct commercial return is available?
Abundance Gap: +25.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. The country has important living-ground assets, but resilience is reduced where climate shocks, habitat loss, land degradation, pollution or infrastructure pressure weaken ecological function.
WHO climate and health profile — Guyana
5% weightJustice, Safety & Institutional Friction
+27.5
Physical safety, usable justice, legal identity, reliable public administration and low needless institutional burden.
TBFC target: Usable justice, legal identity, safety and ordinary administration should remain accessible regardless of wealth.
Access-gate research question: Do fees, legal costs, bail, fines, documentation costs or ability to hire expertise materially change access to justice, safety or public administration?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Public institutions and legal systems provide real capacity, but access friction, security conditions, administrative burden and unequal ability to navigate institutions justify a conservative justice/safety score.
World Bank Data — Guyana
4% weightDurability, Repair & Material Return
+19.5
Whether useful materials, infrastructure and goods are maintained, repairable, recovered and cycled instead of repeatedly becoming waste.
TBFC target: Repair, maintenance and useful material circulation should protect capability instead of forcing repeated repurchase as the default route to continued use.
Access-gate research question: Do repair and maintenance remain practically accessible, or do pricing, proprietary restrictions and replacement incentives turn continued use into repeated purchasing?
Abundance Gap: +18.0
Live-reviewed from the automation completion record plus authoritative-source reconstruction after persistence failure. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Verified evidence
Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. Infrastructure can be repaired and maintained, but the recovered automation package did not establish universal circular-material return. The production score therefore remains conservative rather than treating waste projects or maintenance plans as completed circularity.
World Bank Data — Guyana
6% weightInternational Accessibility, Migration & Human Welcome
+59.8
How easily visitors, migrants, refugees and neighbours can enter, remain, regularize status and participate in ordinary civic and economic life.
TBFC target: A country should have a humane vision for visitors, migrants, refugees and neighbouring families: practical entry, legal identity, family continuity, protection from statelessness, a route into ordinary life and a real place to contribute and grow with the society.
Access-gate research question: Who can enter and stay, how wide is visa-free/eVisa/eTA reach, can newcomers regularize status and work, are refugees and children protected from statelessness, can families remain together, and does the country have a practical long-term vision for newcomers to join ordinary life and contribute?
Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration. International Scoring 1.0.0. Welcome covers real entry, lived migrant/refugee access, permanence/family continuity and contradictory enforcement evidence. No +5 eVisa adjustment is applied unless >100-nationality eVisa breadth is explicitly verified.
Verified evidence
Guyana is actively planning for a much larger migrant workforce and publicly frames migrants from countries including Bangladesh, Cuba and Venezuela as partners in development. Employment visas and migrant access are real, while status, documentation, temporary frameworks and the 2026 US migration-cooperation arrangement keep meaningful permanence and third-country-transfer concerns in the score.
Department of Public Information — migration policy for a larger labour force · News Room Guyana — migrant labour and human-rights protectionsGuyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. International movement remains governed by passports, visas, residence rules, documentation and financial conditions. This is recorded factually and remains unscored under the frozen methodology.
World Bank Data — Guyana
6% weightExternal Footprint & Non-Extractive Global Conduct
+31.5
Documented effects a country, its public institutions or materially supported programs have beyond its borders: beneficial contribution, mutuality, external harm, accountability and repair.
TBFC target: A civilization should increase useful local capability beyond its borders through medicine, training, disaster help, technical cooperation, peace-building and other mutually useful contribution, while avoiding extraction, exported harm and displacement.
Access-gate research question: Do the country’s actions abroad increase health, skill, safety, resilience and locally retained capability, or do they export extraction, coercion, environmental harm, displacement, debt or other burdens?
Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration. International Scoring 1.0.0. External footprint considers contribution, mutual/local benefit, low-harm/non-extractive conduct and accountability relative to national capacity.
Verified evidence
Guyana has supplied practical regional disaster-recovery capability, including a 42-member GDF mission that restored more than 187 homes and public facilities on Union Island. The positive regional contribution is sharply counterweighted by the extraordinary expansion of crude-oil extraction: oil exports exceeded US$15 billion in the first half of 2026 and production averaged about 902,000 barrels per day.
Guyana Defence Force — Union Island humanitarian mission · Department of Public Information — oil exports first half 2026Guyana has exceptional forest, freshwater, land and rapidly expanding fiscal/resource capacity, but settlement is sparse and uneven, interior communities face service and transport gaps, and flood/climate exposure remains significant. External trade, resource flows, aid, emissions and cross-border effects cannot be reduced to territorial conditions alone. This category records the external ledger factually and remains unscored under the frozen methodology.
WHO climate and health profile — GuyanaAbundance Adoption
Verified public uptake of the thinking
Eligible signals can add a bounded bonus to an already-scored relevant category. They do not create missing scores or clear the national money gate.
National media carried an externally published contribution presenting Trott Bailey Abundance Theory as a way to judge Guyana beyond GDP. The publication is independent of Trott Bailey self-publication; the signal receives national-media Adoption weight without being described as a newsroom endorsement.
Open publicationTrott Bailey Family Civilization Target
The end state: life beyond monetary gatekeeping
Trott Bailey Family Civilization treats money as an exchange tool rather than a prerequisite for access to life. The long-run abundance target is that food, water, shelter, care, education, mobility, land access and ordinary public life remain reachable even when a person cannot pay.
This target is an authored civilization standard. The diagnostic evidence score can now draw from all 16 weighted categories. The five-part Money Gate remains a separate domestic threshold asking whether food, housing/land, healthcare, transportation and water/energy are genuinely reachable without payment before any civilization can cross zero.
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