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Sudan

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Sudan is a country. The capital city is Khartoum, located in the Northern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 1,868,000 km², a population of 50,042,791 people and uses the currency Sudanese pound. The Leader of the Sovereignty Council is Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

Key facts

currency: Sudanese pound
capital city: Khartoum
region: Northern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 1,868,000 km²
population: 50,042,791 people
political leader: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (Leader of the Sovereignty Council)

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central government debt: 8.66 % of GDP
expense: 9.73 % of GDP
GDP: 109,265,503,110.90 current US$
inflation: 138.81 annual %
self-employed workers: 46.52 % of total employment
tax revenue: 7.39 % of GDP
unemployment: 7.53 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 39.67 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 144,000 people
democracy score: 2.15
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 9,053,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 26.40 % of population
military expenditure: 0.92 % of GDP
net migration: -1,349,998 people
press freedom: 1.08
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 30.52 %
birth rate: 33.03 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.68 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 21.58 current US$
health expenditure: 2.84 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.09 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.66 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 66
suicide mortality rate: 3.80 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 1,126,648.40 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 4.37 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 21.27 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 63.20 % 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: 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: 4.38 births per woman
forest area: 180,152 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 31.73 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 138.74 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 14.30
methane emissions: 87.03 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 29.12 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 25,221,195 people
male population: 24,821,596 people
renewable energy consumption: 61.00 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 1,859,899.89 km²
rural population: 31,856,240 people
urban land area: 3,789.64 km²
urban population: 18,186,551 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.42 % of total population

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