Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
largest country in Africa; dominated by the Nile and its tributaries
People Sudan
Population:
39,148,162 (July 2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 43.7% (male 8,730,609; female 8,358,569)
15-64 years: 54.1% (male 10,588,634; female 10,571,199)
65 years and over: 2.3% (male 490,869; female 408,282) (2004 est.)
Median age:
total: 17.9 years
male: 17.7 years
female: 18.1 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.64% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
35.79 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
9.37 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.02 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)