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South Sudan

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South Sudan is a country. The capital city is Juba, located in the Middle Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 631,930 km², a population of 11,483,374 people and uses the currency South Sudanese Pound. The President is Salva Kiir Mayardit.

Key facts

currency: South Sudanese Pound
capital city: Juba
region: Middle Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 631,930 km²
population: 11,483,374 people
political leader: Salva Kiir Mayardit (President)

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GDP: 11,997,800,760.22 current US$
inflation: 2.38 annual %
self-employed workers: 72.14 % of total employment
unemployment: 12.48 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 71.41 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 53,000 people
democracy score: 0.00
democracy type: Unknown
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 1,121,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 9.27 % of population
military expenditure: 6.26 % of GDP
net migration: 455,000 people
press freedom: 1.71
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 32.36 %
birth rate: 28.86 per 1,000 people
death rate: 10.74 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 32.68 current US$
health expenditure: 5.86 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.79 per 1,000 uninfected population
life expectancy at birth: 56
suicide mortality rate: 3.90 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 282,527.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.02 % of total energy use
access to electricity: 8.40 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 99.39 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.61 % of total
net energy imports: -1,058.12 % of energy use
fertility rate: 4.34 births per woman
forest area: 71,570 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 72.22 % of total
median age: 14.00
female population: 5,834,585 people
male population: 5,648,789 people
renewable energy consumption: 32.40 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 623,624.99 km²
rural population: 9,049,473 people
urban land area: 666.35 km²
urban population: 2,433,901 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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South Sudan is one of the countries in Africa, countries in Middle Africa and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in South Sudan

Distribution of universities in South Sudan per foundation year

Distribution of athletes from South Sudan by birth date

Distribution of companies in South Sudan by foundation year

Evolution of historical suicide mortality rate in South Sudan with forecast

Evolution of historical vulnerable employment in South Sudan with forecast

Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in South Sudan with forecast

Evolution of historical health expenditure per capita in South Sudan with forecast

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Map of the distribution of wildfires in South Sudan by mean width

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Share of medals won by South Sudan in the Olympics

Share of diseases in South Sudan by mortality rate

Share of athletes per gender in South Sudan

Share of politicians per gender in South Sudan

Correlation of armed forces personnel and greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) of countries yearly in South Sudan

Correlation of urban land area and urban population by countries yearly in South Sudan

Correlation of methane emissions and population by countries yearly in South Sudan

Correlation of mean length and mean width of wildfires by wildfire in South Sudan

In literature

There are 58 books written about South Sudan in the database.

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