ACOG - Chad  - IBM

Geography

Location: Central Africa, south of Libya

Area:
total area:
land area: 1,259,200 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than three times the size of California

Land boundaries: total 5,968 km, Cameroon 1,094 km, Central African Republic 1,197 km,Libya 1,055 km, Niger 1,175 km, Nigeria 87 km, Sudan 1,360 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 5,586,505 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 44% (female 1,198,619; male 1,267,470)
15-64 years: 54% (female 1,563,678; male 1,456,481)
65 years and over: 2% (female 71,971; male 28,286)

Population growth rate: 2.18% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 42.05 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 20.26 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 129.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 41.19 years
male: 40.04 years
female: 42.38 years

Total fertility rate: 5.33 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions:

Religions: Muslim 50%, Christian 25%, indigenous beliefs, animism 25%

Languages: French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects are spoken

Literacy: age 15 and over has the ability to read and write in French and Arabic (1990 est.)
total population: 30%
male: 42%
female: 18%


Government

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

Type: republic

Capital: N'Djamena

Independence: 11 August 1960 (from France)

Constitution: 22 December 1989 (suspended 3 December 1990); Provisional NationalCharter 1 March 1991 is in effect (note - the constitutional commission,which was drafting a new constitution to submit to transitional parliamentfor ratification in April 1994, failed to do so but expects to submit a new draft to the parliament before the end of April 1995)


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $2.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 3.5%

National product per capita: $530

Inflation rate (consumer prices): -4.1%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 40,000 kW
production: 80 million kWh
consumption per capita: 13 kWh



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