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English (official), Arabic (includes Juba and Sudanese variants), regional languages include Dinka, Nuer, Bari, Zande, Shilluk
JUBA (capital) 321,000 (2015)
- Conventional long form
- Republic of South Sudan
- Conventional short form
- South Sudan
- Local long form
- Local short form
presidential republic
- Name
- Juba
- Geographic coordinates
- 04 51 N 31 37 E
- Time difference
- UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Following several decades of civil war with Sudan, industry and infrastructure in landlocked South Sudan are severely underdeveloped and poverty is widespread. Subsistence agriculture provides a living for the vast majority of the population. Property rights are insecure and price signals are weak, because markets are not well organized. After independence, South Sudan's central bank issued a new currency, the South Sudanese pound, allowing a short grace period for turning in the old currency.
- Inflation
- 380.777%
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- 29.1%
- Real Interest Rate
- 12.022%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- None%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ -935,399,217
- Labor Force, Total
- Employment in Agriculture
- %
- Employment in Industry
- %
- Employment in Services
- %
- Unemployment Rate
- %
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 5,190,845,385
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 881,417,415
- Total Merchandise Trade
- %
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ -277,000,000
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 29,304,955
sorghum, maize, rice, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, mangoes, papayas, bananas, sweet potatoes, sunflower seeds, cotton, sesame seeds, cassava (manioc, tapioca), beans, peanuts; cattle, sheep
- Commodities
- Partners
- Commodities
- Partners