Chad 
Facts
Population:
8,707,078 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
47.73% (male 2,091,724; female 2,064,514)
15-64 years:
49.46% (male 2,035,099; female 2,271,389)
65 years and over:
2.81% (male 101,579; female 142,773) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
3.29% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
48.28 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
15.4 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.04 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.9 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.94 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
95.06 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
50.88 years
male:
48.86 years
female:
52.98 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
6.56 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
2.69% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
92,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
10,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Chadian(s)
adjective:
Chadian
Ethnic groups:
Muslims, commonly referred to as "northerners" or "gorane" (Arabs, Toubou, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Kanembou, Baguirmi, Boulala, Zaghawa, and Maba); non-Muslims, commonly referred to as "southerners" (Sara, Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye, Moundang, Moussei, Massa) including nonindigenous 150,000 (of whom 1,000 are French)
note:
ethnicity and regional background more commonly used to identify Chadians than religious affiliation
Religions:
Muslim 50%, Christian 25%, indigenous beliefs (mostly animism) 25%
Languages:
French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write French or Arabic
total population:
48.1%
male:
62.1%
female:
34.7% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $8.1 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
40%
industry:
14%
services:
46% (1998)
Population below poverty line:
64% (1995 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
NA
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 85% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$198 million
expenditures:
$218 million, including capital expenditures of $146 million (1998 est.)
Industries:
cotton textiles, meatpacking, beer brewing, natron (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials
Industrial production growth rate:
5% (1995)
Electricity - production:
90 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
100%
hydro:
0%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
83.7 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels
Exports:
$172 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
cotton, cattle, textiles
Exports - partners:
Portugal 38%, Germany 12%, Thailand, Costa Rica, South Africa, France (1999)
Imports:
$223 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles
Imports - partners:
France 40%, Cameroon 13%, Nigeria 12%, India 5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$1 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$238.3 million (1995); note - $125 million committed by Taiwan (August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank
Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
Currency code:
XAF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 699.21 (January 2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996); note - from 1 January 1999, the XAF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XAF per euro
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
Contact
(Opposition weekly), N'Djamena
(Independent), N'Djamena
http://www.chez.com/ndjamenahebdo/
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Soldiers are out in force on the streets of the Chadian capital N'Djamena after rapidly advancing rebel forces closed in on the city's outskirts late on Wednesday.
At least 10,000 Africans have died in Darfur as a result of an Arab government-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign intended to drive away their black-skinned neighbors from their ancestral farming and grazing lands.
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