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Niger

 

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 Niger
All information: Niger
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:1,267,000 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:23,311,000 328,240,000
Official language:French English

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Government

Government form:Semi-presidential republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1960 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Niamey Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:18.4 33.4
Life expectancy males:60.9 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:63.2 years 81.1 years
Average age:15.0 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:46.08 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:8.27 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.70 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

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Political stability:41 74
Civil rights:32 83
Health:9 74
Climate:39 64
Cost of Living:28 38
Popularity:35 85


Economy

Currency:West African Franc US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:0.5 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:-2.49 % 1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:47.20 % 36.60 %
Average income:536 € 58,821 €
Corruption index:32 (bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:11,533 Mio €0.49 M € 19,145,356 M €58.33 M €
Gross national product:12,396 Mio €0.53 M € 19,308,457 M €58.82 M €
Exported goods:1,295 M €0.06 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:3,009 M €0.13 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:18,949 km0.81 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Waterways:300 km0.01 km 41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:10.000 3,6730.011
Airports:300.001 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:1.07 bn kWh45,687.14 kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:494.70 m kWh21,222.00 kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:779.00 m kWh33,418.11 kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:2.02 m t86.52 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+227 +1
Internet domain:.ne .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:114,3525 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:8,778,884377 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:4540 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:1,223,92653 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:0.30 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:0.05 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:2.4 % 10.8 %
HIV sufferers:0.09 % 0.22 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.8 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:83.0 % 79.0 %
Smokers:8.6 % 25.1 %

Climate

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Daytime temperatures:36.4 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.1 °C 7.3 °C
Relative humidity:39 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:13 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:38.4 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:8.5 7.2


Native languages

English:n/a 82.1 %
Hausa:53.1 % n/a
Songhai-zerma:21.2 % n/a
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Tamashek:10.4 % n/a
Fula:9.7 % n/a
Kanuri:4.4 % n/a
French:1.1 % 0.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
German:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Russian:n/a 0.2 %
other:0.1 % 2.6 %


Religions

Islam:80.0 % 1.1 %
Christianity:n/a 78.5 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Hinduism:n/a 1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:20.0 % 15.3 %