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
(Opposition weekly), N'Djamena
(Independent), N'Djamena
http://www.chez.com/ndjamenahebdo/
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Soldiers are out in force on the streets of the Chadian capital N'Djamena after rapidly advancing rebel forces closed in on the city's outskirts late on Wednesday.
At least 10,000 Africans have died in Darfur as a result of an Arab government-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign intended to drive away their black-skinned neighbors from their ancestral farming and grazing lands.
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