ACOG - Niger  - IBM

Geography

Location: Western Africa, southeast of Algeria

Area:
total area:
land area: 1,266,700 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 5,697 km, Algeria 956 km, Benin 266 km, Burkina 628 km, Chad1,175 km, Libya 354 km, Mali 821 km, Nigeria 1,497 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 9,280,208 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 49% (female 2,275,338; male 2,275,999)
15-64 years: 49% (female 2,314,857; male 2,188,938)
65 years and over: 2% (female 107,432; male 117,644)

Population growth rate: 3.4% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 54.8 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 20.8 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 109.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 45.07 years
male: 43.42 years
female: 46.77 years

Total fertility rate: 7.35 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 4,000 French expatriates

Religions: Muslim 80%, remainder indigenous beliefs and Christians

Languages: French (official), Hausa, Djerma

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1988)
total population: 11%
male: 17%
female: 5%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Niger
conventional short form: Niger

Type: republic

Capital: Niamey

Independence: 3 August 1960 (from France)

Constitution: approved by national referendum 16 December 1992; promulgated January1993


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.6 billion

National product real growth rate: 1.4%

National product per capita: $550

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 60,000 kW
production: 200 million kWh
consumption per capita: 42 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).