Gross National Product. Real Gross Domestic Product per Capita. The University of Khartoum is the major university, with an estimated 12,000 students in 1990. Life expectancy in 1992 was estimated at 51.2, while the Under 5 Mortality Rate was 160 per thousand, the average for sub-Saharan Africa. There was one doctor for every 11,100 people.
Large areas have no health services at all.
The remainder hold to traditional beliefs. Given the difficulty of obtaining reliable statistics, all the above figures should be taken as estimates. Sources include publications cited in this guide as well as UNDP, Human Development Report 1994 and 1995. This series of background papers is part of a program of public education funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford Foundation, and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. APIC's primary objective is to widen the policy debate in the United States around African issues and the U.S. role in Africa, by concentrating on providing accessible policy-relevant information and analysis usable by a wide range of groups and individuals.