the poverty line for
years despite rapid rises in average per capita income. In January
2007, the government introduced a new currency, the Sudanese Pound,
at an initial exchange rate of $1.00 equals 2 Sudanese Pounds.

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$80.98 billion (2007 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

$46.16 billion (2007 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

10.2% (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$1,900 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 32%
industry: 32.8%
services: 35.2% (2007 est.)

Labor force:

7.415 million (1996 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 80%
industry: 7%
services: 13% (1998 est.)

Unemployment rate:

18.7% (2002 est.)

Population below poverty line:

40% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Investment (gross fixed):

19% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $9.201 billion
expenditures: $10.62 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

105.9% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

8% (2007 est.)

Stock of money:

$5.549 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$4.068 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$8.659 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic,
sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet
potatoes, sesame; sheep, livestock

Industries:

oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap
distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments,
automobile/light truck assembly

Industrial production growth rate:

22% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

4.037 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

3.398 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 52.1%
hydro: 47.9%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

466,100 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

79,760 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

282,100 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

7,558 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

5 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (200