Literacy rate: 60.7% (2018 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2020 est.): $176.4 billion; per capita $4,000. Real growth rate: 1.4%. Inflation: 50.2%. Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.). Arable land: 15.7%. Agriculture: cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic,...
Literacy rate:60.7% (2018 est.) Economic summary:GDP/PPP(2020 est.): $176.4 billion; per capita $4,000.Real growth rate:1.4%.Inflation:50.2%.Unemployment:19.6% (2017 est.).Arable land:15.7%.Agriculture:cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassava ...
Literacy—61%. Health: Infant mortality rate—64/1,000. Life expectancy—58.5 yrs. Work force: Agriculture—80%; industry and commerce—7%; government—13%. Religion See also: Christians in Sudan An estimated 70% of the population is Muslim. Islam predominates in the north. Almost all ...
The fact that South Sudan,ravagedby decades of civil war, has long been deprived of an adequate education system is evident in its literacy rates, which are among the lowest in the world. Only about one-fourth of adults are able to read. There is a higher rate of literacy in urban area...
victim to the conflict or die as a result of the famine or diseases, and some of them escape to find asylum in Chad or Uganda. The average life expectancy is estimated at 55.85 years for men and 58.08 years for women. The literacy rate is 58 percent for men and 35 percent for women...
(enrollment 5,423). Higher education was limited to the University of Khartoum, except for less than 1,000 students sent abroad by wealthy parents or on government scholarships. The adult literacy rate in 1956 was 22.9 percent, and, despite the efforts of successive governments, by 1990 it ...
The literacy level of these two students is probably on par for Twilight fans, but definitely unbecoming for the University of California system. The first letter is reputedly from a college senior. Rebecca Joseph‘s opening argument was plagiarized from the internet, but she continues to scold...
The literacy rate is only 46 percent overall (58% for men and 36% for women), but the overall education level of the population has increased since independence. In the mid-1950s fewer than 150,000 children were enrolled in primary school, compared with more than 2 million today. However...
the Carter Center. There were fears that voting would be delayed due to Sudan's extreme poverty and 20 percent literacy rate. But Carter says the voting process has been "very orderly, very enthusiastic." The next step is ensuring that northern Sudan will recognize the voting outcome, and th...
Studies of the people of Sudan include Abd-al (abdel) Ghaffar Muhammad Ahmad, Shaykhs and Followers: Political Struggle in the Rufaʿa al-Hoi Nazirate in the Sudan (1974), an excellent analysis of the political and social structure of this nomadic community in the southern Funj region; ...