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SUDANRepublic of the Sudan GEOGRAPHY:
- Location:----------------- Northern Africa
- Area:
Total area:--- 2,505,810 sq. km
Land area:--- 2,376,000 sq. km
- Capital
city:------------- Khartoum
- Natural Resources:---------------- Petroleum; small reserves of
iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold.
PEOPLE:
- Population:----------------
33,550,552
- Literacy rate:-------------- 46.1% of total population, (Males:57.7%, Females:34.6%).
- Languages:------------------ Arabic (offical), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic,
Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English.
- Religious:----------------- 70% Sunni Muslim(in North),
25%-indigenous beliefs, 5%-Christian(mostly in the south and Khartoum).
VITAL STATISTICS:
- Birth rate:------------- 40.54 (per 1,000 population)(1997)
- Death rate:-------------
11.16 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant Mortality rate:------------ 74.3 (deaths per 1,000 live
births)
- Fertility rate:--------------- 5.79 (per woman)
- Life
Expectancy at birth:
Total population:--- 55.54 (Males:54.6, Females:56.53).
GOVERNMENT:
- Type of Government:-------------- Transitional-previously ruling military junta.
- Independence:--------------
January 1, 1956 (from Egypt and UK)
- President:-------------- Lt. General Omar Hassan Ahmed
el-Bashir.
ECONOMY:
- GDP:--------------- purchasing power parity - $26.6 billion
(1996)
GDP real growth rate:--- 4%
GDP per capita:--- $860
- Inflation rate (consumer prices):------------- 133% (1996)
- National budget:
Revenues:--- $382 million
Expenditures:--- $1.06 billion
- External Debt:--------------
$18.5 billion
- Currency:--------------- 1 Sudanese pound = 100 piastres
- Labor force:--------------- 11 million (1996)
- Unemployment rate:---------------- 30%
- Agriculture:---------------- Cotton, oilseed, sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic; sheep.
- Industries:--------------- Cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum
refining.
- Exports:---------------- $500 million
Commodities:--- Cotton, livestock/meat,
gum arabic. - Imports:---------------- $1 billion
Commodities:--- Foodstuffs,
petroleum products, manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles.
DEFENCE:
- Defence Expenditures:--------------- $NA, NA% of GDP
Geography:Sudan is located in the northeast Africa. Sudan is the largest country in the continent of
Africa. Its neighbors are Chad, central African Republic on the west and Egypt and Libya on the north. Ethiopia and Eritrea
to the east and Kenya and Uganda to the south.
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