ACOG - Sudan  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea

Area:
total area: 2,505,810 sq km
land area:
comparative area: slightly more than one-quarter the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 7,687 km, Central African Republic 1,165 km, Chad 1,360 km, Egypt 1,273 km, Eritrea 605 km, Ethiopia 1,606 km, Kenya 232 km, Libya 383 km, Uganda 435 km, Zaire 628 km

Coastline: 853 km


People

Population: 30,120,420 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 46% (female 6,801,001; male 7,124,892)
15-64 years: 52% (female 7,706,864; male 7,830,980)
65 years and over: 2% (female 280,297; male 376,386)

Population growth rate: 2.35% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 41.29 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.74 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 77.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 54.71 years
male: 53.81 years
female: 55.65 years

Total fertility rate: 6 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%

Religions: Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), indigenous beliefs 25%, Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum)

Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1983)
total population: 32%
male: 44%
female: 21%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of the Sudan
conventional short form: Sudan

Type: ruling military junta - Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) - dissolvedon 16 October 1993 and government civilianized

Capital: Khartoum

Independence: 1 January 1956 (from Egypt and UK)

Constitution: 12 April 1973, suspended following coup of 6 April 1985; interim constitutionof 10 October 1985 suspended following coup of 30 June 1989


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $23.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 7%

National product per capita: $870

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 112%

Unemployment rate: 30%

Electricity:
capacity: 500,000 kW
production: 1.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 42 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.