Guyana’s non-oil sector registers growth of more than seven per cent

Guyana’s non-oil econ­o­my grew by 13.8 per cent in the first half of 2025, ac­cord­ing to the mid-year eco­nom­ic re­port.

Tourism, In­dus­try and Com­merce Min­is­ter, Su­san Ro­drigues de­scribed the fig­ures as ex­cep­tion­al by glob­al stan­dards, say­ing “by any mea­sure, that is a re­mark­able growth per­cent­age”

She said in a broad­cast that the over­all econ­o­my grew by 7.5 per cent for the fifth con­sec­u­tive year of broad-based eco­nom­ic ex­pan­sion in Guyana, high­light­ing the per­for­mance across the non-oil sec­tors in a num­ber of ar­eas in­clud­ing agri­cul­ture, tourism, trade and in­fra­struc­ture.

“Guyana’s econ­o­my is ex­treme­ly di­ver­si­fied, and that is some­thing that we are very proud of, and we will con­tin­ue to build on,” she said, mak­ing ref­er­ence to the coun­try’s next phase of de­vel­op­ment.

“Our ob­jec­tive is very sim­ple, to en­sure that pros­per­i­ty reach­es every sin­gle Guyanese re­gard­less of your ge­og­ra­phy, back­ground, your eth­nic­i­ty, your re­li­gion or your po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion,” Ro­driques said.

She said that this strate­gic di­rec­tion will be re­flect­ed in var­i­ous agen­cies such as the Small Busi­ness Bu­reau, Guyana Na­tion­al Bu­reau of Stan­dards, Guyana Tourism Au­thor­i­ty and the Com­pe­ti­tion Con­sumer Af­fairs Com­mis­sion.