Sudan 
Facts
Population: 39,379,358 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 41.6% (male 8,371,628/female 8,016,880)
15-64 years: 56% (male 11,080,025/female 10,956,458)
65 years and over: 2.4% (male 504,957/female 449,410) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.082% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 34.86 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 14.39 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0.35 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.044 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.011 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.124 male(s)/female
total population: 1.027 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 91.78 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 91.95 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 91.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 49.11 years
male: 48.24 years
female: 50.03 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 4.69 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 2.3% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 400,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 23,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Sudanese (singular and plural)
adjective: Sudanese.
Ethnic groups: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%.
Religions: Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum), indigenous beliefs 25%.
Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
note: program of "Arabization" in process.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 61.1%
male: 71.8%
female: 50.5% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $97.47 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 9.6% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,400 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 35.5%
industry: 24.8%
services: 39.7% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 7.415 million (1996 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 80%
industry: 7%
services: 13% (1998 est.).
Population below poverty line: 40% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 18.7% (2002 est.).
Budget: revenues: $7.943 billion
expenditures: $10.1 billion; including capital expenditures of $304 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep, livestock.
Industries: oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments, automobile/light truck assembly.
Industrial production growth rate: 8.5% (1999 est.).
Electricity - production: 3.845 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 3.576 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $7.505 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar.
Exports - partners: China 71.1%, Japan 12%, Saudi Arabia 2.8% (2005).
Imports: $8.693 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles, wheat.
Imports - partners: China 20.7%, Saudi Arabia 9.4%, UAE 5.9%, Egypt 5.5%, Japan 5.1%, India 4.8% (2005).
Debt - external: $29.69 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $172 million (2001).
Currency (code): Sudanese dinar (SDD).
Exchange rates: Sudanese dinars per US dollar - 217.2 (2006), 243.61 (2005), 257.91 (2004), 260.98 (2003), 263.31 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(Government-owned monthly), Khartoum
Sudan in the News
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Coercive 'Food Colonialism' policies are increasing African nation’s hunger crises.
Two million southerners, displaced by Sudan's 21-year civil war, live in and around the capital. Many have settled in squalid camps, which is where many of the street children come from.
: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for assistance from the international community to alleviate the suffering in the turbulent Darfur region of Sudan.
“After four months of virtual silence and tens of thousands more deaths,” writes Norm Dixon for the Green Left Weekly, “the Jan. 31 release of the report of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur has prodded U.S. spokespeople into repeating the charge that ‘genocide’ is taking place in Sudan’s Darfur provinces.”
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