Area: 2,505,810 sq km Land: 2,376,000 sq km Arable land: 5%
Irrigated land: 19,460 sq km
Infant mortality rate: 68.67 deaths/1,000 live births
Total fertility rate: 5.35 children born/woman
Religions: Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), indigenous beliefs 25%, Christian 5%
Ethnic groups: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%
Judicial System: Supreme Court; Special Revolutionary Courts
Legal System: based on English common law and Islamic law
GDP per capita: $1,000 GDP — agriculture: 39% industry: 17% services: 44%
Unemployment rate: 4% Literacy — male: 57.7% female: 34.6%
Exports: $1.7 billion Commodities: oil and petroleum products, cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar
Exports partners: Saudi Arabia 16%, Italy 10%, Germany 5%, France 3%, Thailand 3%
Imports: $1.2 billion Commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles
Imports partners: China 14.7%, Libya 14.7%, Saudi Arabia 8.9%, UK 8.7%, France 6.7% Telephones — main lines in use: 400,000 Internet Service Providers: 1
Manpower fit for military service: 5,194,862
Military expenditures: $550 million NA % of GDP
Independence: 1 January 1956
(from Egypt and UK)
Government type: Transitional — ruling military junta took power in 1989
Population: 36,080,373
