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 REPUBLIC OF SUDAN FUN FACTS Statsitics are 2011 projected rates *2004 statistic  ﻿POPULATION: 43.2 million     CAPITAL: Khartoum    SIZE: 2.5 million square kilometers (about one fourth the size of the United States, the largest African country)    OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English, Arabic   PRACTICED RELIGIONS: Christianity, Islam, Animism  NATIONAL ANTHEM: "Nahnu Djundulla Djundulwatan" ("We Are the Army of Our God and of Our Land")  MEANING BEHIND FLAG: The red represents the struggle for freedom, white symbolizes peace, light and love, black stands for the Sudan itself and green is agriculture, Islam and wealth  AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY: 55.42 years  BIRTH RATE: 36.12 births for every 1,000 of the population  DEATH RATE: 11 deaths for every 1,000 of the population  GDP PPP: $98.79 billion  POPULATION PROPORTION BELOW POVERTY LINE: 40%*  MAJOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS: Cotton, peanuts, gum arabic, livestock, mangos, papaya, sugarcane  MAJOR INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS: Oil, textiles, cement, sugar, cement