Statistics

• Only one out of every 50 children completes primary school.
• From a population of 7.5 million only 500 girls and 2,000 boys finish their primary education. (Around three times more boys than girls attend school)
• Three out of every four adults is illiterate - one of every ten female adults is literate.
• Only 7% of teachers receive one year of training.
• Only 10% of classrooms are in permanent buildings and one third of the schools have access to toilets. Half have access to safe clean water.

• One in every four newborns will die before reaching the age of 5.
• The risk of dying in pregnancy over a woman's lifetime is one in nine.

• There is one medical doctor for every 100,000 people in Southern Sudan.
• 45% of children under five have or are recovering from Diarrhoea.
• The prevalence of malaria in Southern Sudan is almost four times higher than the level in the wider Sudan.
• The level of immunization against TB, Tetanus, Measles is among the lowest rates in the world.

• The level of access to an improved water source (27 %) and sanitation facilities (16%) in Southern Sudan are low compared to the peer country.

• 21.5% of children under 5 are suffering from moderate or severe wasting.
• 48% of children under 5 suffer from "general malnutrition" whereas 21 % suffer from severe malnutrition.

• There is virtually no birth registration in Southern Sudan.
• The proportion of children who work in their households is 58 % - four times higher than the rest of Sudan.

• Southern Sudan income is about four times lower than the level of the rest of Sudan.
• 90% of the population of Southern Sudan earn less than one dollar a day, placing Southern Sudan among the poorest regions of the world.
• The population of Southern Sudan is the youngest in the world.
• 21% of the population is under 5. It has a low proportion of adults in the population as a result of the civil war and famine.