Sudan

the Sudanese Government directly controls TV and radio, requiring that both media reflect government policies; TV has a permanent military censor; a private radio station is in operation (2007)

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99 (2012) country comparison to the world: 211

4.2 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 56

general assessment: well-equipped system by regional standards and being upgraded; cellular communications started in 1996 and have expanded substantially with wide coverage of most major cities domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, fiber optic, radiotelephone communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations international: country code - 249; linked to the EASSy and FLAG fiber-optic submarine cable systems; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Arabsat (2010)

483,600 (2011) country comparison to the world: 100

25.056 million (2011) country comparison to the world: 42

cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), mangoes, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep and other livestock

revenues: $4.521 billion expenditures: $10.07 billion (2012 est.)

-10.8% of GDP (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 203

-$3.575 billion (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 153 $208.1 million (2011 est.)

$39.7 billion (31 December 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 63 $38.62 billion (31 December 2011 est.)

Sudan is an extremely poor country that has had to deal with social conflict, civil war, and the July 2011 secession of South Sudan - the region of the country that had been responsible for about three-fourths of the former Sudan's total oil production. The oil sector had driven much of Sudan's GDP growth since it began exporting oil in 1999. For nearly a decade, the economy boomed on the back of increases in oil production, high oil prices, and significant inflows of foreign direct investment. Following South Sudan's secession, Sudan has struggled to maintain economic stability, because oil earnings now provide a far lower share of the country's need for hard currency and for budget revenues. Sudan is attempting to generate new sources of revenues, such as from gold mining, while carrying out an austerity program to reduce expenditures. Agricultural production continues to employ 80% of the work force. Sudan introduced a new currency, still called the Sudanese pound, following South Sudan's secession, but the value of the currency has fallen since its introduction. Khartoum formally devalued the currency in June when it passed austerity measures that included gradually repealing fuel subsidies. Sudan also faces rising inflation, which reached 47% on an annual basis in November. Ongoing conflicts in Southern Kordofan, Darfur, and the Blue Nile states, lack of basic infrastructure in large areas, and reliance by much of the population on subsistence agriculture ensure that much of the population will remain at or below the poverty line for years to come.

Sudanese pounds (SDG) per US dollar - 4.4 (2012 est.) 2.68 (2011 est.) 2.31 (2010 est.) 2.3 (2009) 2.1 (2008)

$4.548 billion (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 120 $9.694 billion (2011 est.)

gold; oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar

Macau 65.2%, UAE 15.5% (2011)

calendar year

$51.58 billion (2012 est.)

$80.43 billion (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 80 $90.61 billion (2011 est.) $94.87 billion (2010 est.) note: data are in 2012 US dollars

agriculture: 32% industry: 25% services: 43% (2012 est.)

$2,400 (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 182 $2,800 (2011 est.) $2,400 (2010 est.) note: data are in 2012 US dollars

-11.2% (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 216 -4.5% (2011 est.) 2.2% (2010 est.)

lowest 10%: 2.7% highest 10%: 26.7%

$6.645 billion (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 112 $8.205 billion (2011 est.)

foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles, wheat

Macau 21.5%, UAE 10.1%, Saudi Arabia 6.9%, India 6.7%, Egypt 5.8%, Germany 4.8% (2011)

3.5% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 88

31.5% (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 221 18% (2011 est.)

26% of GDP (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 41

11.92 million (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 45

agriculture: 80% industry: 7% services: 13% (1998 est.)

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46.5% (2009 est.)

89.3% of GDP (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 17 89.2% of GDP (2011 est.)

$297.9 million (31 December 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 153 $295 million (31 December 2011 est.)

$12.83 billion (31 December 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 96 $15.6 billion (31 December 2011 est.)

$10.97 billion (31 December 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 95 $13.99 billion (31 December 2011 est.)

$7.847 billion (31 December 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 85 $9.272 billion (31 December 2011 est.)

8.8% of GDP (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 210

20% (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 161 18.7% (2002 est.)

13.79 million Mt (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 92

370,700 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 22

0 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 123

120,000 bbl/day (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 47

5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 25

4.611 billion kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 118

0 kWh (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 133

30.7% of total installed capacity (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 178

66.3% of total installed capacity (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 26

0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 180

3% of total installed capacity (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 47

0 kWh (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 136

2.338 million kW (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 98

6.509 billion kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 107

0 cu m (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 196

0 cu m (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 56

0 cu m (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 133

0 cu m (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 193

84.95 billion cu m (1 January 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 59

95,450 bbl/day (2011 est.) country comparison to the world: 81

14,950 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 82

24,820 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 93

85,890 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 77

total: 1,861,484 sq km country comparison to the world: 16 land: NA water: NA

slightly less than one-fifth the size of the US

hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November)

853 km

lowest point: Red Sea 0 m highest point: Jabal Marrah 3,071 m

inadequate supplies of potable water; wildlife populations threatened by excessive hunting; soil erosion; desertification; periodic drought

party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

total: 37.32 cu km/yr (3%/1%/97%) per capita: 1,030 cu m/yr (2000)

15 00 N, 30 00 E

dominated by the Nile and its tributaries

18,630 sq km (2003)

total: 6,751 km border countries: Central African Republic 175 km, Chad 1,360 km, Egypt 1,275 km, Eritrea 605 km, Ethiopia 769 km, Libya 383 km, South Sudan 2,184 km note: Sudan-South Sudan boundary represents 1 January 1956 alignment; final alignment pending negotiations and demarcation; final sovereignty status of Abyei region pending negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan

arable land: NA permanent crops: NA other: NA (2005)

north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea

Africa

territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

dust storms and periodic persistent droughts

petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower

generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north

154 cu km (1997)

17 states (wilayat, singular - wilayah); Al Bahr al Ahmar (Red Sea), Al Jazira (Gezira), Al Khartoum (Khartoum), Al Qadarif (Gedaref), An Nil al Abyad (White Nile), An Nil al Azraq (Blue Nile), Ash Shimaliyya (Northern), Gharb Darfur (Western Darfur), Janub Darfur (Southern Darfur), Janub Kurdufan (Southern Kordofan), Kassala, Nahr an Nil (River Nile), Sharq Darfur (Eastern Darfur), Shimal Darfur (Northern Darfur), Shimal Kurdufan (Northern Kordofan), Sinnar, Wasat Darfur (Central Darfur)

name: Khartoum geographic coordinates: 15 36 N, 32 32 E time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

the Government of Sudan is in the process of drafting a new constitution to replace the Interim National Constitution ratified 5 July 2005

conventional long form: Republic of the Sudan conventional short form: Sudan local long form: Jumhuriyat as-Sudan local short form: As-Sudan former: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Joseph D. STAFFORD, III embassy: Sharia Ali Abdul Latif Street, Khartoum mailing address: P.O. Box 699, Khartoum; APO AE 09829 telephone: [249] (183) 774-700 through 704 FAX: [249] (183) 774-137

chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Emad Mirghani ALTOHAMY chancery: 2210 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: [1] (202) 338-8565 FAX: [1] (202) 667-2406

chief of state: President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR (since 16 October 1993); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR (since 16 October 1993) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president; note - the NCP (formerly the National Islamic Front or NIF) dominates al-BASHIR's cabinet (For more information visit theWorld Leaders website) elections: election on 11-15 April 2010; next to be held in 2015 election results: Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR reelected president; percent of vote - Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR 68.2%, Yasir ARMAN 21.7%, Abdullah Deng NHIAL 3.9%, others 6.2% note: al-BASHIR assumed power as chairman of Sudan's Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation (RCC) in June 1989 and served concurrently as chief of state, chairman of the RCC, prime minister, and minister of defense until mid-October 1993 when he was appointed president by the RCC; he was elected president by popular vote for the first time in March 1996

three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black with a green isosceles triangle based on the hoist side; colors and design based on the Arab Revolt flag of World War I, but the meanings of the colors are expressed as follows: red signifies the struggle for freedom, white is the color of peace, light, and love, black represents Sudan itself (in Arabic 'Sudan' means black), green is the color of Islam, agriculture, and prosperity

Federal republic ruled by the National Congress Party the (NCP), which came to power by military coup in 1989; the CPA-mandated Government of National Unity, which since 2005 provided a percentage of leadership posts to the south Sudan-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), was disbanded following the secession of South Sudan.

1 January 1956 (from Egypt and the UK)

accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; withdrew acceptance of ICCt jurisdiction in 2008

ABEDA, ACP, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, CAEU, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Constitutional Court of nine justices; National Supreme Court; National Courts of Appeal; other national courts; National Judicial Service Commission will undertake overall management of the National Judiciary

mixed legal system of Islamic law and English common law

bicameral National Legislature consists of a Council of States (50 seats; members indirectly elected by state legislatures to serve six-year terms) and a National Assembly (450 seats; 60% from geographic constituencies, 25% from a women's list, and 15% from party lists; members to serve six-year terms) elections: last held on 11-15 April 2010 (next to be held in 2016) election results: National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NCP 323, SPLM 99, PCP 4, DUP 4, UFP 3, URRP 2, DUPO 2, SPLM-DC 2, other 7, vacant 4

name: "Nahnu Djundulla Djundulwatan" (We Are the Army of God and of Our Land) lyrics/music: Sayed Ahmad Muhammad SALIH/Ahmad MURJAN note: adopted 1956; the song originally served as the anthem of the Sudanese military

Independence Day, 1 January (1956)

secretary bird

Democratic Unionist Party or DUP [Hatim al-SIR]; Democratic Unionist Party-Original or DUPO; National Congress Party or NCP [Umar Hassan al-BASHIR]; Popular Congress Party or PCP [Hassan al-TURABI]; Umma Federal Party or UFP; Umma Renewal and Reform Party or URRP

Umma Party [SADIQ Siddiq al-Mahdi]; Popular Congress Party or PCP [Hassan al-TURABI]; Democratic Unionist Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI]; Darfur rebel groups including the Justice and Equality Movement or JEM [Jabril IBRAHIM and other factional leaders] and the Sudan Liberation Movement or SLM [various factional leaders]

17 years of age; universal

Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956. Sudan was embroiled in two prolonged civil wars during most of the remainder of the 20th century. These conflicts were rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of largely non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The first civil war ended in 1972 but broke out again in 1983. The second war and famine-related effects resulted in more than four million people displaced and, according to rebel estimates, more than two million deaths over a period of two decades. Peace talks gained momentum in 2002-04 with the signing of several accords. The final North/South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in January 2005, granted the southern rebels autonomy for six years followed by a referendum on independence for Southern Sudan. The referendum was held in January 2011 and indicated overwhelming support for independence. South Sudan became independent on 9 July 2011. Since southern independence Sudan has been combating rebels from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. A separate conflict, which broke out in the western region of Darfur in 2003, has displaced nearly two million people and caused an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 deaths. The UN took command of the Darfur peacekeeping operation from the African Union in December 2007. Peacekeeping troops have struggled to stabilize the situation, which has become increasingly regional in scope and has brought instability to eastern Chad. Sudan also has faced large refugee influxes from neighboring countries primarily Ethiopia and Chad. Armed conflict, poor transport infrastructure, and lack of government support have chronically obstructed the provision of humanitarian assistance to affected populations.

males age 16-49: 10,433,973 females age 16-49: 10,411,443 (2010 est.)

males age 16-49: 6,475,530 females age 16-49: 6,840,885 (2010 est.)

male: 532,030 female: 512,476 (2010 est.)

Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF): Land Forces, Navy (includes Marines), Sudanese Air Force (Sikakh al-Jawwiya as-Sudaniya), Popular Defense Forces (2011)

3% of GDP (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 42

18-33 years of age for male and female compulsory and voluntary military service; 1-2 year service obligation; a requirement that completion of national service was mandatory before entering public or private sector employment has been cancelled (2009)

0-14 years: 42% (male 7,305,175/ female 7,056,966) 15-64 years: 54.7% (male 9,351,327/ female 9,360,358) 65 years and over: 3.3% (male 627,014/ female 505,870) (2012 est.)

31.7 births/1,000 population (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 41

31.7% (2006) country comparison to the world: 15

8.3 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 88

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Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Fallata

1.1% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 44

12,000 (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 23

260,000 (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 22

7.3% of GDP (2009) country comparison to the world: 71

0.7 beds/1,000 population (2008)

total: 55.6 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the world: 35 male: 61.2 deaths/1,000 live births female: 49.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur note: program of "Arabization" in process

total population: 62.57 years country comparison to the world: 183 male: 60.58 years female: 64.67 years (2012 est.)

definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61.1% male: 71.8% female: 50.5% (2003 est.)

KHARTOUM (capital) 5.021 million (2009)

degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) water contact disease: schistosomiasis respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis animal contact disease: rabies note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)

730 deaths/100,000 live births (2010) country comparison to the world: 8

total: 18.7 years male: 18.5 years female: 19 years (2012 est.)

noun: Sudanese (singular and plural) adjective: Sudanese

-4.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 190

0.28 physicians/1,000 population (2008)

34,206,710 country comparison to the world: 36 note: includes the population of South Sudan (8,260,490); demographic data includes South Sudan (July 2012 est.)

1.88% (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 64

Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority

improved: urban: 55% of population rural: 18% of population total: 34% of population unimproved: urban: 45% of population rural: 82% of population total: 66% of population

total: 4 years (2000)

at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 1.24 male(s)/female total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2011 est.)

4.17 children born/woman (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 38

urban population: 40% of total population (2010) rate of urbanization: 3.7% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

the effects of Sudan's almost constant ethnic and rebel militia fighting since the mid-20th century have penetrated all of the neighboring states; Chad wishes to be a helpful mediator in resolving the Darfur conflict, and in 2010 established a joint border monitoring force with Sudan, which has helped to reduce cross-border banditry and violence; as of 2006, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda provided shelter for over a half million Sudanese refugees, which include 240,000 Darfur residents driven from their homes by Janjawid armed militia and Sudanese military forces; as of January 2011, Sudan, in turn, hosted about 138,700 Eritreans, 43,000 Chadians, and smaller numbers of Ethiopians; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia proceed slowly due to civil and ethnic fighting in eastern Sudan; Sudan claims but Egypt de facto administers security and economic development of Halaib region north of the 22nd parallel boundary; periodic violent skirmishes with Sudanese residents over water and grazing rights persist among related pastoral populations along the border with the Central African Republic; South Sudan-Sudan boundary represents 1 January 1956 alignment, final alignment pending negotiations and demarcation; final sovereignty status of Abyei Area pending negotiations between South Sudan and Sudan

refugees (country of origin): 100,464 (Eritrea); 31,871 (Chad); 4,421 (Ethiopia) (2011) IDPs: more than 2.4 million (civil war 1983-2005; ongoing conflict in Darfur region; government and rebel fighting along South Sudan border) (2011)

current situation: Sudan is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; Sudanese women and girls, particularly those from rural areas or who are internally displaced, are vulnerable to forced labor as domestic workers in homes throughout the country; some of these women and girls are subsequently sexually abused by male occupants of the household or forced to engage in commercial sex acts; Sudanese women and girls are subjected to domestic servitude in Middle Eastern countries, such as Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, and to forced sex trafficking in European countries; some Sudanese men who voluntarily migrate to the Middle East as low-skilled laborers face conditions indicative of forced labor; Sudanese children transit Yemen en route to Saudi Arabia, where they are used in forced begging and street vending, and reportedly work in exploitative labor situations for Sudanese traders in the Central African Republic; Sudan is a transit and destination country for Ethiopian and Eritrean women subjected to domestic servitude in Sudan and Middle Eastern countries; Sudan is a destination for Ethiopian, Somali, and possibly Thai women subjected to forced prostitution; Sudanese children in Darfur were forcibly conscripted, at times through abduction, and used by armed groups tier rating: Tier 3 - Sudan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; while the government took some initial steps to acknowledge the existence of trafficking, draft anti-trafficking legislation, prosecute suspected traffickers, demobilize and reintegrate child soldiers, and waive overstay fines for foreign domestic workers, its efforts to combat human trafficking through law enforcement, protection, or prevention measures were undertaken in an ad hoc fashion, rather than as the result of strategic planning; the government convicted three traffickers, but did not officially identify trafficking victims or make public data regarding its efforts to combat human trafficking; its proxy militias reportedly unlawfully recruited and used child soldiers during the reporting period, and it did not take action to conclude a propsed action plan with the UN to address the problem (2012)

72 (2012) country comparison to the world: 74

total: 15 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 9 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 under 914 m: 1 (2012)

total: 57 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17 914 to 1,523 m: 27 under 914 m: 12 (2012)

6 (2012)

total: 2 country comparison to the world: 143 by type: cargo 2 (2010)

gas 156 km; oil 4,070 km; refined products 1,613 km (2010)

Port Sudan

total: 5,978 km country comparison to the world: 30 narrow gauge: 4,578 km 1.067-m gauge; 1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations (2008)

total: 11,900 km country comparison to the world: 131 paved: 4,320 km unpaved: 7,580 km (2000)

4,068 km (1,723 km open year round on White and Blue Nile rivers) (2011) country comparison to the world: 25