Togo 
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Facts
Population:
5,153,088
note:
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
45.63% (male 1,179,650; female 1,171,748)
15-64 years:
51.92% (male 1,302,197; female 1,373,247)
65 years and over:
2.45% (male 54,651; female 71,595) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.6% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
37.04 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
11.24 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.15 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.76 male(s)/female
total population:
0.97 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
70.43 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
54.35 years
male:
52.38 years
female:
56.38 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
5.32 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
5.98% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
130,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
14,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Togolese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Togolese
Ethnic groups:
native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%
Religions:
indigenous beliefs 59%, Christian 29%, Muslim 12%
Languages:
French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
51.7%
male:
67%
female:
37% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $7.3 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3.4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
42%
industry:
21%
services:
37% (1997)
Population below poverty line:
32% (1989 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
1.74 million (1996)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 65%, industry 5%, services 30% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$232 million
expenditures:
$252 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries:
phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement; handicrafts, textiles, beverages
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
92 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
97.83%
hydro:
2.17%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
511.6 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
426 million kWh
note:
electricity supplied by Ghana (1999)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, cocoa, cotton, yams, cassava (tapioca), corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock; fish
Exports:
$336 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa
Exports - partners:
Nigeria, Brazil, Canada, Philippines (1999)
Imports:
$452 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products
Imports - partners:
Ghana, China, France, Cote d'Ivoire (1999)
Debt - external:
$1.5 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient:
$201.1 million (1995)
Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Currency code:
XOF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) 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 XOF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF per euro
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
(Independent), Lome
http://www.actutogo.com/
(Online forum), Lome
http://www.togoforum.com/
(Independent), Lome
http://www.togolumiere.com/
Togo in the News
The drug trade is fast turning large parts of West Africa into areas that are all but ungovernable, with major implications for international security.
Tope Akinwande reports on the quack doctors selling fake, often deadly 'medicines' in Africa and the international trade that supplies them.
The government of Togo has taken the unusual step of preparing a lawsuit against the human-rights group Amnesty International-with the legal assistance of high-powered French attorney Jacques Verges.
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