Sudan
(place)
Key facts
- currency: Sudanese pound
- capital city: Khartoum
- region: Northern Africa
- continent: Africa
- land area: 1,868,000 km²
- population: 48,109,006
- political leader: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (Leader of the Sovereignty Council)
Location on a map: [15°0′N, 30°0′E]
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Profile
Sudan is a country in Northern Africa, Africa. It has a land area of 1,868,000 km² and a population of 48,109,006. The capital city is Khartoum. The political leader is Abdel Fattah al-Burhan whose title is Leader of the Sovereignty Council.
In the news
Sudan has been mentioned 895 times in the news, here is the latest (trend):
As Starvation Spreads in Sudan, Military Blocks Aid Trucks at Border
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Sudan: Constant flow of arms fuelling relentless civilian suffering in conflict - new investigation
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Sudan's warring parties using starvation as weapon: UN experts
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Politics
There are political parties in Sudan. There are politicians in Sudan.
- Armed forces personnel: 144,000.00
- Democracy score: 2.15
- Democracy type: Authoritarian
- Military expenditure: 0.92 % of GDP
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 30.52 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Sudan
Evolution of historical military expenditure (% of GDP) in Sudan
Evolution of historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in Sudan
Distribution of politicians from Sudan by birth date
Distribution of politicians from Sudan by gender
Environment
Sudan is one of the countries in Africa and one of the countries in Northern Africa.
There are cities in Sudan. There are wildfires in Sudan.
- Agricultural land: 1,126,648.40 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: 4.38 births per woman
- Forest area: 181,873 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: 14.60 years
- Methane emissions: 55,887.40 kt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 29,300.73 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 24,074,537.00
- Male population: 24,034,469.00
- Renewable energy consumption: 61.00 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 1,859,899.89 km²
- Rural population: 30,625,231.00
- Urban land area: 3,789.64 km²
- Urban population: 17,483,775.00
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.42 % of total population
Geographical distribution of cities in Sudan by population
Evolution of historical agricultural land in Sudan
Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy (% of total energy use) in Sudan
Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Sudan
Evolution of historical access to electricity in Sudan
Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in Sudan (% of total)
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Evolution of historical electricity production from hydroelectric sources in Sudan
Evolution of historical electricity production from nuclear sources in Sudan (% of total)
Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in Sudan
Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources in Sudan
Evolution of historical net energy imports in Sudan
Evolution of historical fertility rate in Sudan
Evolution of historical forest area in Sudan
Evolution of historical fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total) in Sudan
Evolution of historical other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Sudan
Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Sudan
Evolution of historical internet access in Sudan
Evolution of historical land area in Sudan
Evolution of historical median age in Sudan
Evolution of historical methane emissions in Sudan
Evolution of historical net migration in Sudan
Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in Sudan
Evolution of historical population in Sudan
Evolution of historical female population in Sudan
Evolution of historical male population in Sudan
Evolution of historical renewable energy consumption in Sudan
Evolution of historical total rural land area in Sudan
Evolution of historical rural population in Sudan
Evolution of historical total urban land in Sudan
Evolution of historical urban population in Sudan
Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Sudan
Distribution of sites in Sudan by inscription year
Geographical distribution of sites in Sudan by area
Distribution of transboundary sites in Sudan
Geographical distribution of wildfires in Sudan by total fire area
Health
- 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: 0.74 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 65.58 years
- Suicide mortality rate: 3.80 per 100,000 population
Evolution of historical health expenditure per capita in Sudan
Evolution of historical health expenditure (% of GDP) in Sudan
Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in Sudan
Evolution of historical hospital beds in Sudan
Evolution of historical life expectancy in Sudan
Evolution of historical suicide rate in Sudan
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Evolution of daily cases in Sudan
Evolution of the total rolling average of COVID cases (7 days) in Sudan
Evolution of daily deaths from COVID-19 in Sudan
Evolution of daily deaths from COVID-19 in Sudan (7-day rolling average)
Culture
There are artists in Sudan. There are museums in Sudan.
Research
There are universities in Sudan.
Business
There are companies in Sudan. There are shops in Sudan.
- Central government debt: 8.66 % of GDP
- Expense: 9.73 % of GDP
- Gdp: 109,327,023,588.73 current US$
- Inflation: 138.81 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 59.70 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 7.39 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 11.45 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 58.22 % of total employment
Distribution of companies from Sudan by foundation year
Distribution of companies from Sudan by Twitter account creation date
Evolution of historical central government debt (% of GDP) in Sudan
Evolution of historical expense (% of GDP) in Sudan
Evolution of historical GDP in Sudan
Evolution of historical median inflation in Sudan
Evolution of historical self employed (% of total employment) in Sudan
Evolution of historical tax revenue (% of GDP) in Sudan
Evolution of historical unemployment rate in Sudan
Evolution of historical vulnerable employment in Sudan
Distribution of CEO genders in Sudan
Distribution of shops in Sudan by country
Source
This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
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