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Agriculture > products cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassava, mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep, livestock
Aid as % of GDP	2%		[66th of 129]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Debt > External	$29,420,000,000.00		[59th of 136]
Source: calculated on the basis of data on ODA from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Development Assistance Committee. 2002. DAC Online. Database. Paris.; and data on GDP from World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Economy > Overview Sudan's economy is booming on the back of increases in oil production, high oil prices, and large inflows of foreign direct investment. GDP growth registered more than 10% per year in 2006 and 2007. From 1997 to date, Sudan has been working with the IMF to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate. Sudan began exporting crude oil in the last quarter of 1999. Agricultural production remains important, because it employs 80% of the work force and contributes a third of GDP. The Darfur conflict, the aftermath of two decades of civil war in the south, the lack of basic infrastructure in large areas, and a reliance by much of the population on subsistence agriculture ensure much of the population will remain at or below 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.
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Exchange rates Sudanese dinars per US dollar - 257.91 (2004), 260.98 (2003), 263.31 (2002), 258.7 (2001), 257.12 (2000)
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Exports	$8,879,000,000.00		[82nd of 189]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Exports to US	$100,000.00		[205th of 224]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GDP	$37,564,620,000.00		[61st of 203]
Source: US Census Bureau
GDP (purchasing power parity)	$80,980,000,000.00		[71st of 187]
Source: World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook
GDP > PPP	$69,379,000,000.00		[61st of 163]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GDP > Real growth rate	10.2%		[15th of 198]
Source: World Bank. 2005. World Development Indicators 2005.
GDP growth > annual %	8 annual %		[21st of 187]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Gross National Income	$10,702,500,000.00		[74th of 172]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Gross national income > constant LCU	1433161000
Human Development Index	0.512		[143rd of 178]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	8%		[57th of 192]
Source: Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Development Programme
Population below poverty line	40%		[22nd of 46]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Public debt	105.9 % of GDP		[5th of 121]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Technological achievement	0.07		[68th of 68]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Tourist arrivals	30,000		[137th of 152]
Source: United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report 2001. New York: Oxford University Press,2001, Table A2.1. via ciesin.org

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