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Togo

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 Location: West Africa
Bordering countries: Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana
Area: 56,785 sq. km
Population statistics (based on United Nations sources):
  • Total: 4,512,000 (1999)
  • Growth rate: 2.94
  • Ratio of males per 100 females: 98.1
  • Age structure (1995 figures)
    • Percentage aged 0-4 : 18.4
    • Percentage aged 5-14 : 27.5
    • Percentage aged 15-24 : 18.8
    • Percentage aged 25-60 : 27.1
    • Percentage aged 60-over : 8.2
  • Population density: 72 per sq. km

Literacy rate: 55.2% (1998)
GNP in US$ billions: 1.5 (1998)
GNP per capita in US$: 330 (1998)
Human Development Index value: 0.471 (1998)
Human Development Index rank: 145 of 174 countries
Gender-related Development Index value: 0.448 (1998)
Gender-related Development Index rank: 120 of 174 countries

 

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Togo is a small country sandwiched between Ghana and equally small Benin. Togo lost one third of its territory, the British Togoland, to Ghana in 1957. A former French trusteeship, the Republic of Togo gained its independence in 1960. The population concentrations are along the coast, including the capital city of Lome.

Togo's economy is heavily dependent on commercial and subsistence agriculture, which provides over 60% of the total work force. Cocoa, coffee and cotton generate together about 30% of export earning. In the industrial sector, phosphate mining is by far the most important activity, although it has suffered from competition and the collapse of international phosphate prices. Tourism is also a source of foreign earnings. Togo serves as a regional commercial and trade centre. Political unrest in 1992-1993 has jeopardised the reform program supported by the World Bank and IMF. The 1994 devaluation of the currency by almost 50% has stabilised the situation and provided an impetus to renewed structural adjustments.

In 1998, Togo's telecommunications network had approximately 31,400 connected lines, giving a telephone density of 0.71 line per hundred people.

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