Sudan GDP Data & Country Report

Sudan Country Report: GDP data and GDP forecasts; economic, financial and trade information; the best banks in Sudan; country and population overview

DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

Central bank

Bank of Sudan

International Reserves

N/A

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

US$ 75.103 billion (2009 estimate)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

105.862 billion of International dollars (2009 estimate)

Real GDP growth

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
8.4%	6.2%	5.4%	7.1%	5.1%	6.3%	11.3%	10.2%
2008	2009	2010	2011*
6.8%	6%	5.1%	4.7%

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

US$ 1,824 (2006 estimate)

GDP per capita - PPP

$2,571 International Dollars (2006 estimate)

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

1980	1990	2000	2010	2015**
0.1%	0.09%	0.1%	0.13%	0.14%

**Forecast

GDP - composition by sector

agriculture: 44.7%
industry: 45%
services: 10.3% (2011 estimate)

(Data released on February 2012)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Inflation

2008	2009	2010	2011*
14.3%(2008)	11.3%	13%	9%

*Estimate

Unemployment rate

2008	2009	2010	2011*
16%	14.9%	13.7%(2009)	12.6%

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
82.3%	69.9%	78.9%	68%	63.4%

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011**
-5.4%	-1.4%	-4.7%	-3.7%	-4.6%

*Estimate **Forecast

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: N/A

Moody's rating: N/A

Moody's outlook: N/A

(Foreign Currency Government Bond Ratings; Data last updated Nov 2010)

Market value of publicly traded shares

2007	2008	2009
N/A	N/A	N/A

Largest companies in Sudan

N/A

DATA ON TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

Current account balance

US$ -4.2 billion (2009 estimate)(After 2008)

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

-5.5% of GDP (2009 estimate)(2009)

Exports as percent of GDP

(Exports of goods and services)

25.9% (2009)

(Data released on December 2010)

Shares in world total merchandising export

0.08%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Shares in world total commercial services export

0.01%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Total exports

US$9.777 billion f.o.b. (2010 estimate)

Export commodities

oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar

Total imports

US$7.757 billion f.o.b. (2008 estimate)

Import commodities

foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles, wheat

Exports - major partners

China 82.1%, Japan 8.4%, UAE 2.5% (2007)

Imports - major partners

China 27.9%, Saudi Arabia 7.5%, India 6.3%, Egypt 5.6%, UAE 5.5%, Japan 4.2% (2007)

FDI inflows

2008	2009	2010
US$2,601 million	US$2,682 million(2009)	US$1,600 million(2009)

FDI outflows

2008	2009	2010
US$98 million	US$45 million	US$51 million

Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser

2008	2009	2010	2011
N/A	N/A(2009)	N/A(2009)	N/A

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2008

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2010

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A(2008 estimate)

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Best countries for doing business

World Bank/IFC Doing Business Project

(Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 183. A high ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.)

Overall ranking: 154 out of 183 countries(2009) (2010)

Subcategories:

Starting a business: 121 out of 183 countries(2009)

Registering property: 40 out of 183 countries

Paying Taxes: 94 out of 183 countries

Getting credit: 138 out of 183 countries

Protecting investors: 154 out of 183 countries

Trading across border: 143 out of 183 countries

Enforcing Contracts: 146 out of 183 countries

(2010)

Global competitiveness ranking
(ranking by country on a basis of 142, the first is the best)

N/A

(2011/2012)

Index of Economic Freedom

WSJ and Heritage Foundation

N/A (2009)

(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )

COUNTRY AND POPULATION OVERVIEW

Time zone

UTC+3

Total area

2,505,813 km² (2006)

Capital

Khartoum (2009)

Currency

Sudanese pounds (SDG) (2009)

Government type

Government of National Unity (GNU) - the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) formed a power-sharing government under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA); the NCP, which came to power by military coup in 198 (2009)

Languages

Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages

Religions

Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum), indigenous beliefs 25%

Total population

1980	1990	2000	2010*	2015**
18.68 million	25.75 million	31.1 million	40.13 million	45.63 million

*Estimate **Forecast

Urban population as % of total population

1960	1980	2000	2009
10.7%	20%	36.1%	44.3%

Population median age

20.0 years (2006)

Population growth rate

2.2% (2009)

Life expectancy

58 years (2007)

Adult literacy

61% (2000/2007)

% of population living on less than $2 a day

N/A

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

N/A

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

Political Rights:7
Civil Liberties:7 (2010)

(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free)

Total telephone subscribers as % of population

41.4% (2010)

(sum of fixed telephone lines and mobile cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

N/A

Cost of living index

(ranking by city on a basis of 214; the 1st is the most expensive and the 214th is the least expensive)

Khartoum: 44th (2011)

CO2 emissions
(Metric tons of CO2 per capita)

0.3398 (2008)

GLOBAL FINANCE RANKINGS AND AWARDS

WORLD'S BEST ISLAMIC FINANCE INSTITUTIONS

2012:

COUNTRY WINNERS Faisal Islamic Bank of Sudan (National, 2012)

2011:

COUNTRY WINNERS Al Salam Bank (National, 2011)

2010:

COUNTRY WINNERS Al Salam Bank (National, 2010)

2009:

COUNTRY WINNERS Al Salam Bank Sudan (National, 2009)

WORLD'S BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS

2011:

COUNTRY WINNERS Al Salam Bank Sudan (National, 2011)

2010:

COUNTRY WINNERS Al Salam Bank Sudan (National, 2010)

2009:

COUNTRY WINNERS Al Salam Bank Sudan (National, 2009)

ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES REPORTS FROM GLOBAL FINANCE ARCHIVE

Sudan GDP Data & Country Report | Global Finance

WORLD'S BEST ISLAMIC FINANCE INSTITUTIONS

2012:

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WORLD'S BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS

2011:

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