Sudan 
Facts
Population:
36,080,373 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
44.62% (male 8,227,011; female 7,870,783)
15-64 years:
53.29% (male 9,619,218; female 9,608,469)
65 years and over:
2.09% (male 425,898; female 328,994) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.79% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
37.89 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.04 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
1.29 male(s)/female
total population:
1.03 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
68.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
56.94 years
male:
55.85 years
female:
58.08 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
5.35 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.99% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Sudanese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Sudanese
Ethnic groups:
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
note:
program of "Arabization" in process
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
46.1%
male:
57.7%
female:
34.6% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $35.7 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
7% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
39%
industry:
17%
services:
44% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
10% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
11 million (1996 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 10%, government 6%, unemployed 4% (1996 est.)
Unemployment rate:
4% (1996 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.2 billion
expenditures:
$1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments
Industrial production growth rate:
5% (1996 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.76 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
42.05%
hydro:
57.95%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
1.637 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassara, mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep, livestock
Exports:
$1.7 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
oil and petroleum products, cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar
Exports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 16%, Italy 10%, Germany 5%, France 3%, Thailand 3% (1999)
Imports:
$1.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles
Imports - partners:
China 14.7%, Libya 14.7%, Saudi Arabia 8.9%, UK 8.7%, France 6.7% (1999)
Debt - external:
$24.9 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$187 million (1997)
Currency:
Sudanese dinar (SDD)
Currency code:
SDD
Exchange rates:
Sudanese dinars per US dollar - 257.44 (January 2001), 257.12 (2000), 252.55 (1999), 200.80 (1998), 157.57 (1997), 125.08 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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(pro-government), Khartoum
http://www.alkanews-sudan.com/
Al-Fajr
(Biweekly), Khartoum
Al-Ingaz al-Watan
(Government-owned), Khartoum
(Communist party monthly), Khartoum
http://www.midan.net/
Al-Quwate al-Mussalaha
(Armed forces organ), Khartoum
(Weekly), Khartoum
http://www.rayaam.net/
Al-Ra'i al-Akhbar
(independent), Khartoum
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Two million southerners, displaced by Sudan's 21-year civil war, live in and around the capital. Many have settled in squalid camps, which is where many of the street children come from.
: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for assistance from the international community to alleviate the suffering in the turbulent Darfur region of Sudan.
“After four months of virtual silence and tens of thousands more deaths,” writes Norm Dixon for the Green Left Weekly, “the Jan. 31 release of the report of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur has prodded U.S. spokespeople into repeating the charge that ‘genocide’ is taking place in Sudan’s Darfur provinces.”
In Sudan the world adopted a wait and see attitude toward what has now become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. As George Haley, Chinua Akukwe and Sidi Jammeh argue in this report, the time has come for African leaders to take the initiative.
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