Chad is a lower income country comes under the Sub Saharan African region as to the classification made by the World Bank on the basis of income and region for the year 2006.
The country has a total surface area of 1.3 million square kilometers as in the year 2004, with a total forest area of 123.2 thousand square kilometers.
DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL INDICATORS
The total population of the country as in the year 2004 has reached at 9.4 millions with an annual percentage growth rate of 3.4. The following diagram shows the annual percentage growth rate of the population over years:
The life expectancy years of the country as in 2004 was 43.9. The infant mortality rate per 1,000 life births in the country in 2004 was 117.0. The adult literacy rate (% of peoples ages 15 and above) in the year was 25.7.
KEY ECONOMIC INDICATORS
The Gross National Income in the country as of the year 2004 has reached at 3.1 billions in current US $, with a per capita GNI of 330.0 in current US$.
Gross Domestic Product of the country grew at an annual rate of 29.5 for the year 2004.
The following diagram shows the annual percentage growth rate of GDP over years:
