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 SudanMore Facts & Figures
Languages:
Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse
dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
Ethnicity/race:
black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%,
other 1%
Religions:
Islam (Sunni) 70% (in north), indigenous 25%,
Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum) Literacy rate: 61% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2007 est.):
$80.71 billion; per capita $2,200. Real growth rate: 10.5%.
Inflation: 8%. Unemployment: 18.7% (2002 est.).
Arable land: 7%. Agriculture: cotton, groundnuts
(peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassava
(tapioca), mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep,
livestock. Labor force: 11 million (1996 est.); agriculture
80%, industry and commerce 7%, government 13% (1998 est.).
Industries: oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils,
sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals,
armaments, automobile/light truck assembly. Natural resources:
petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc,
tungsten, mica, silver, gold, hydropower. Exports: $6.989
billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): oil and petroleum products; cotton,
sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar. Imports:
$5.028 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): foodstuffs, manufactured goods,
refinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles,
wheat. Major trading partners: China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE,
Egypt, India, Germany, Australia (2004). Communications: Telephones: main lines in
use: 400,000 (2000); mobile cellular: 20,000 (2000). Radio
broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998).
Radios: 7.55 million (1997). Television broadcast stations:
3 (1997). Televisions: 2.38 million (1997). Internet
Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2002). Internet users: 56,000
(2002). Transportation: Railways:
total: 5,978 km (2002). Highways: total: 11,900 km; paved:
4,320 km; unpaved: 7,580 km (1999 est.). Waterways: 5,310 km
navigable. Ports and harbors: Juba, Khartoum, Kusti, Malakal,
Nimule, Port Sudan, Sawakin. Airports: 63 (2002). International disputes:the north-south civil
war has drawn Sudan's neighbors into the fighting, sheltering
refugees, and infiltration by rebel groups—Kenya and Uganda have
acted as mediators; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel
groups; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia have
been delayed by fighting in Sudan; Kenya's administrative boundary
still extends into the Sudan, creating the “Ilemi
triangle”; Egypt and Sudan retain claims to administer the
triangular areas that extend north and south of the 1899 Treaty
boundary along the 22nd Parallel, but have withdrawn their military
presence; Egypt is economically developing the “Hala'ib
triangle.”
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