| President |
Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (since 1993) |
| Location |
Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea |
| Independence |
1 January 1956 (from Egypt and UK) |
| Population (2006E) |
41,236,378 |
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| Minister of Finance |
Zubeir Mohammed Hassan |
| Currency/Exchange Rate (4/13/07) |
1 Sudanese Dinar (SDD) = 0.0043 USD |
| Inflation Rate |
(2005E):8.5% (2006E): 7.2% |
| Gross Domestic Product (2006E) |
$36.5 Billion |
| Real GDP Growth Rate |
(2005E): 7.9% (2006E): 9.0% |
| External Debt (2006E) |
$29.7 Billion |
| Exports (2006E) |
$5.9 Billion |
| Exports |
oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar |
| Exports - Partners (2005E) |
China 71.1%, Japan 12%, Saudi Arabia 2.8% |
| Imports (2006E) |
$7.6 Billion |
| Imports |
foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles, wheat |
| Imports - Partners (2005E) |
China 20.7%, Saudi Arabia 9.4%, UAE 5.9%, Egypt 5.5%, Japan 5.1%, India 4.8% |
| Current Account Balance (2006E) |
-$3.9 Billion |
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| Minister of Energy and Mining |
Awad Ahmed al-Jaz |
| Proven Oil Reserves (January 1, 2007E) |
5 billion barrels |
| Oil Production (2006E) |
414 thousand barrels per day |
| Oil Consumption (2006E) |
94 thousand barrels per day |
| Crude Oil Refining Capacity (2007E) |
121.7 thousand barrels per day |
| Proven Natural Gas Reserves (January 1, 2007E) |
3 trillion cubic feet |
| Natural Gas Production (2004E) |
None |
| Natural Gas Consumption (2004E) |
None |
| Recoverable Coal Reserves (2003E) |
None |
| Coal Production (2004E) |
None |
| Coal Consumption (2004E) |
None |
| Electricity Installed Capacity (2004E) |
0.8 gigawatts |
| Electricity Production (2004E) |
3.8 billion kilowatt hours |
| Electricity Consumption (2004E) |
3.6 billion kilowatt hours |
| Total Energy Consumption (2004E) |
0.1 quadrillion Btus*, of which Oil (93%), Hydroelectricity (7%), Natural Gas (0%), Coal (0%), Nuclear (0%), Other Renewables (0%) |
| Total Per Capita Energy Consumption ((Million Btu)E) |
3.8 million Btus |
| Energy Intensity (2004E) |
2,651.4 Btu per $2000-PPP** |
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| Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions (2004E) |
9.8 million metric tons, of which Oil (100%), Natural Gas (0%), Coal (0%) |
| Per-Capita, Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions ((Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide)E) |
0.3 metric tons |
| Carbon Dioxide Intensity (2004E) |
0.2 Metric tons per thousand $2000-PPP** |
| Environmental Issues |
inadequate supplies of potable water; wildlife populations threatened by excessive hunting; soil erosion; desertification; periodic drought |
| Major Environmental 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 |
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| Major Oil Ports |
Port Sudan |
| Foreign Company Involvement |
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Malaysia’s Petronas, Total SA, Marathon Oil Corporation, and the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Company |
| Major Oil Fields |
Adar Yale, Fula, Heglig, Mala, Palogue, Thar Jath, and Unity |
| Major Pipelines |
994-mile pipeline from Heglig and Unity fields to the Suakin oil terminal – 870-mile pipeline linking Melut Basin to oil export terminal near Port Sudan and a 110-mile pipeline linking the Thar Jath and Mala fields to Port Sudan. |
| Major Refineries |
Khartoum (100,000 bbl/d), Port Sudan Refinery (21,700) |
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* The total energy consumption statistic includes petroleum, dry natural gas, coal, net hydro, nuclear, geothermal, solar, wind, wood and waste electric power.
**GDP figures from Global Insight estimates based on purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates.
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