Chad 
Facts
Population:
8,707,078 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
47.73% (male 2,091,724; female 2,064,514)
15-64 years:
49.46% (male 2,035,099; female 2,271,389)
65 years and over:
2.81% (male 101,579; female 142,773) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
3.29% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
48.28 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
15.4 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.04 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.9 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.94 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
95.06 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
50.88 years
male:
48.86 years
female:
52.98 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
6.56 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
2.69% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
92,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
10,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Chadian(s)
adjective:
Chadian
Ethnic groups:
Muslims, commonly referred to as "northerners" or "gorane" (Arabs, Toubou, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Kanembou, Baguirmi, Boulala, Zaghawa, and Maba); non-Muslims, commonly referred to as "southerners" (Sara, Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye, Moundang, Moussei, Massa) including nonindigenous 150,000 (of whom 1,000 are French)
note:
ethnicity and regional background more commonly used to identify Chadians than religious affiliation
Religions:
Muslim 50%, Christian 25%, indigenous beliefs (mostly animism) 25%
Languages:
French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write French or Arabic
total population:
48.1%
male:
62.1%
female:
34.7% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $8.1 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
40%
industry:
14%
services:
46% (1998)
Population below poverty line:
64% (1995 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
NA
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 85% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$198 million
expenditures:
$218 million, including capital expenditures of $146 million (1998 est.)
Industries:
cotton textiles, meatpacking, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials
Industrial production growth rate:
5% (1995)
Electricity - production:
90 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
100%
hydro:
0%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
83.7 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels
Exports:
$172 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
cotton, cattle, textiles
Exports - partners:
Portugal 38%, Germany 12%, Thailand, Costa Rica, South Africa, France (1999)
Imports:
$223 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles
Imports - partners:
France 40%, Cameroon 13%, Nigeria 12%, India 5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$1 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$238.3 million (1995); note - $125 million committed by Taiwan (August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank
Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
Currency code:
XAF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 699.21 (January 2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996); note - from 1 January 1999, the XAF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XAF per euro
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
Contact
(Opposition weekly), N'Djamena
(Independent), N'Djamena
http://www.chez.com/ndjamenahebdo/
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The Chad mission, which begins in February, marks the first time that a European Union military force and a United Nations mission have been combined in a single United Nations mandate.
Aid agencies estimate that more than 50,000 Chadians have fled their homes and villages throughout eastern Chad since a rapid escalation of cross-border attacks in December 2005.
According to figures released on Sunday, Deby received 77.6 percent of the vote, sealing his bid to extend his 15-year reign by another five years.
Deby has survived more rebel attacks this month and maintains that presidential elections on May 3 — in which he will be running after doctoring the national constitution — will go ahead as planned.
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