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Cord in Chad

Key facts about Chad

  • Chad is the 7th lowest country on the 2010 worldwide Human Development Index (HDI)
  • It has a population of 11.5 million (UNPD 2010)
  • Life expectancy is 49.2 years of age (UNDP 2010)
  • 83% of people live on less than $2 a day (World Bank 2011)
  • It is hosting more than 240,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur
  • 179,000 Chadians have themselves been displaced by conflict

(Figures taken from "United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2007/08 unless otherwise stated)
 

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