Chad 
Facts
Population: 9,885,661 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 47.3% (male 2,366,496/female 2,308,155)
15-64 years: 49.8% (male 2,250,211/female 2,676,076)
65 years and over: 2.9% (male 120,666/female 164,057) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.32% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 42.35 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 16.69 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -2.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.04 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.025 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.841 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.736 male(s)/female
total population: 0.92 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 102.07 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 108.27 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 95.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 47.2 years
male: 46.17 years
female: 48.27 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 5.56 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 4.8% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 200,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 18,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Chadian(s)
adjective: Chadian.
Ethnic groups: Sara 27.7%, Arab 12.3%, Mayo-Kebbi 11.5%, Kanem-Bornou 9%, Ouaddai 8.7%, Hadjarai 6.7%, Tandjile 6.5%, Gorane 6.3%, Fitri-Batha 4.7%, other 6.4%, unknown 0.3% (1993 census).
Religions: Muslim 53.1%, Catholic 20.1%, Protestant 14.2%, animist 7.3%, other 0.5%, unknown 1.7%, atheist 3.1% (1993 census).
Languages: French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write French or Arabic
total population: 47.5%
male: 56%
female: 39.3% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $14.98 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 1% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,500 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 32.5%
industry: 26.6%
services: 40.8% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 2.719 million (1993).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 80% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing)
industry and services: 20%.
Population below poverty line: 80% (2001 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues: $617.3 million
expenditures: $877.6 million; including capital expenditures of $146 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels.
Industries: oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials.
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1995).
Electricity - production: 94 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 87.42 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $4.342 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: cotton, cattle, gum arabic, oil.
Exports - partners: US 78.1%, China 9.9%, Taiwan 4.1% (2005).
Imports: $823.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, foodstuffs, textiles.
Imports - partners: France 21.2%, Cameroon 15.4%, US 12.1%, Belgium 6.7%, Portugal 4.6%, Saudi Arabia 4.3%, Netherlands 4.1% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.5 billion (2003 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $246.9 million (2003 est.).
Currency (code): Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States.
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 522.59 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Contact
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(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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