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10 nations with highest inflation

May 19, 2008

3. Guinea: 30.9%

Guinea is also one of the world's poorest countries. The inflation in the nation is at 30.9%.

Although blessed with rich mineral wealth -- with huge iron ore, gold and diamond deposits -- Guinea has been languishing as one of the poorest nations on earth with large-scale unemployment, lack of industry and infrastructure dogging it.

Image: A young Guinean woman tries to find some shade under electoral leaflets in Conakry, capital of Guinea. | Photograph: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images

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