_#_Natural resources: crude oil (unexploited but exploration beginning), uranium, natron, kaolin, fish (Lake Chad)
_#_Land use: arable land 2%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 36%; forest and woodland 11%; other 51%; includes irrigated NEGL%
_#_Environment: hot, dry, dusty harmattan winds occur in north; drought and desertification adversely affecting south; subject to plagues of locusts
_#_Note: landlocked; Lake Chad is the most significant water body in the Sahel
_*People #_Population: 5,122,467 (July 1991), growth rate 2.1% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 42 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 22 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: NEGL migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 134 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 39 years male, 41 years female (1991)