ACOG - Togo  - IBM

Geography

Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Benin andGhana

Area:
total area: 56,790 sq km
land area: 54,390 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than West Virginia

Land boundaries: total 1,647 km, Benin 644 km, Burkina 126 km, Ghana 877 km

Coastline: 56 km


People

Population: 4,410,370 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 49% (female 1,069,171; male 1,079,999)
15-64 years: 49% (female 1,121,685; male 1,043,000)
65 years and over: 2% (female 51,392; male 45,123)

Population growth rate: 3.58% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 46.78 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.01 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 86.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 57.42 years
male: 55.29 years
female: 59.6 years

Total fertility rate: 6.83 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: 37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabye, European and Syrian-Lebanese under 1%

Religions: indigenous beliefs 70%, Christian 20%, Muslim 10%

Languages: French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the twomajor African languages in the south), Dagomba and Kabye (the two major African languages in the north)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 43%
male: 56%
female: 31%


Government

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

Type: republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule

Capital: Lome

Independence: 27 April 1960 (from French-administered UN trusteeship)

Constitution: multiparty draft constitution approved by High Council of the Republic1 July 1992; adopted by public referendum 27 September 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $3.3 billion

National product real growth rate:

National product per capita: $800

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.5%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 30,000 kW
production: 60 million kWh
consumption per capita: 83 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.