Environment - current issues:
inadequate supplies of potable water; wildlife populations
threatened by excessive hunting; soil erosion; desertification;
periodic drought
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, 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:
40,187,486 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 43.2% (male 8,865,331/female 8,488,982)
15-64 years: 54.5% (male 10,952,566/female 10,930,218)
65 years and over: 2.4% (male 513,679/female 436,710) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 18.07 years
male: 17.86 years
female: 18.29 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.6% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
35.17 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
9.16 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)