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Key facts

  • Currency: Sudanese pound
  • Capital city: Khartoum
  • Region: Northern Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 1,868,000 km²
  • Population: 46,874,204
  • Political Leader: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (Leader of the Sovereignty Council)

Latest news

Schools to reopen in South Sudan after two weeks of extreme heat

Read: The Star

2024-03-26

Elon Musk's Starlink terminals are showing up in Yemen, Sudan, and other hotspots: 'No accountability'

Read: Quartz

2024-03-26

Libya to investigate claims oil smuggling is fuelling Sudan civil war

Read: The Guardian

2024-03-25

Sudan faces 'catastrophic hunger' as conflict blocks aid

Read: Deutsche Welle

2024-03-22

Sudan faces 'catastrophic hunger' as conflict blocks aid

Read: Deutsche Welle

2024-03-22

World News in Brief: Sex trafficking and child recruitment in Sudan, new mass grave in Libya, children at risk in DR Congo

Read: Global Issues

2024-03-22

World News in Brief: Sex trafficking and child recruitment in Sudan, new mass grave in Libya, children at risk in DR Congo

Read: United Nations

2024-03-22

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 8.66 % of GDP
Expense 9.73 % of GDP
GDP 51,662,200,000.00 current US$
Inflation 138.81 annual %
Self-employed 59.70 % of total employment
Tax revenue 7.39 % of GDP
Unemployment 17.59 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 58.22 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 1,126,650.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 4.37 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 20,796.10 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 64.54 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 22.62 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 0.00 % of total
Net energy imports -8.99 % of energy use
Fertility rate 4.46 births per woman
Forest area 181,874 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 31.73 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 2,266.35 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 14.50 years
Methane emissions 55,887.40 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 29,300.70 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 23,454,198
Male Population 23,420,005
Renewable energy consumption 62.13 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 1,859,900.00 km²
Rural population 30,020,115
Urban land area 3,789.64 km²
Urban population 16,854,089
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 0.42 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 33.60 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.80 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 23.39 current US$
Health expenditure 3.02 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.07 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 0.74 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 65 years
Suicide mortality rate 3.80 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 61.77 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 3,553,000
Individuals using the Internet 28.40 % of population
Net migration -9,999
Press freedom 1.08


Politics

Armed forces personnel 144,000
Democracy score 2.15
Democracy type Authoritarian
Military expenditure 0.92 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 30.52 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 2 days ago

License

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