Togo 
Facts
Population: 5,701,579
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 42% (male 1,201,840/female 1,193,416)
15-64 years: 55.3% (male 1,535,855/female 1,617,631)
65 years and over: 2.7% (male 61,658/female 91,179) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.718% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 36.83 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 9.65 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.007 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.949 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.676 male(s)/female
total population: 0.965 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 59.12 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 66.56 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 51.46 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 57.86 years
male: 55.81 years
female: 59.96 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 4.9 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 4.1% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 110,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 10,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Togolese (singular and plural)
adjective: Togolese.
Ethnic groups: African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%.
Religions: Christian 29%, Muslim 20%, indigenous beliefs 51%.
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: 60.9%
male: 75.4%
female: 46.9% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $9.271 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,700 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 39.5%
industry: 20.4%
services: 40.1% (2003 est.).
Labor force: 1.302 million (1998).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 65%
industry: 5%
services: 30% (1998 est.).
Population below poverty line: 32% (1989 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues: $260.2 million
expenditures: $311 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa, cotton, yams, cassava (tapioca), corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum; livestock; fish.
Industries: phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts, textiles, beverages.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 286.2 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 929.2 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 663 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by Ghana (2004).
Exports: $868.4 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: reexports, cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa.
Exports - partners: Ghana 21.1%, Burkina Faso 18.2%, Benin 11.5%, Mali 7.3%, India 5.8%, Nigeria 4% (2005).
Imports: $1.208 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products.
Imports - partners: France 17.8%, China 13.3%, Cote d'Ivoire 6.5%, Italy 4.5%, Spain 4.3% (2005).
Debt - external: $2 billion (2005).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $80 million (2000 est.).
Currency (code): Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States.
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) 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
(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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