Sudan Fast Facts
Here’s a look at Sudan, a North African country bordering the Red Sea, Egypt,Libya, Chad, Central African Republic,South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
About Sudan
Area: 1,861,484 sq km slightly less than one-fifth the size of the United States.
Population: 46,751,152 (July 2021 est.)
Median age: 18.3 years
Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.)
Other Facts
Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It is now the third largest, after Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sudan lost most of its oil reserves, estimated to be between five and seven billion barrels, when South Sudan seceded.
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Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.)
Other Facts
Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It is now the third largest, after Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sudan lost most of its oil reserves, estimated to be between five and seven billion barrels, when South Sudan seceded.
The United Nations has called the Sudan/Darfur conflict one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Between 2003 and 2008, at least 300,000 people were killed, and three million displaced.
Timeline
1955 – Prior to Sudan’s independence, conflict breaks out between Muslim Arabs in the north and Christian/Animist Africans in the south.