factbook.json/africa/ne-niger.json

{
  "intro": {
    "background": {
      "text": "Niger became independent from France in 1960 and experienced single-party and military rule until 1991, when Gen. Ali SAIBOU was forced by public pressure to allow multiparty elections, which resulted in a democratic government in 1993. Political infighting brought the government to a standstill and in 1996 led to a coup by Col. Ibrahim BARE. In 1999, BARE was killed in a counter coup by military officers who restored democratic rule and held elections that brought Mamadou TANDJA to power in December of that year. TANDJA was reelected in 2004 and in 2009 spearheaded a constitutional amendment that would allow him to extend his term as president. In February 2010, a military coup deposed TANDJA, immediately suspended the constitution, and dissolved the Cabinet. ISSOUFOU Mahamadou emerged victorious from a crowded field in the election following the coup and was inaugurated in April 2011. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world with minimal government services and insufficient funds to develop its resource base. The largely agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa. The Nigerien Movement for Justice, a predominately Tuareg ethnic group, emerged in February 2007, and attacked several military targets in Niger's northern region throughout 2007 and 2008. Successful government offensives in 2009 limited the rebels' operational capabilities. Niger is facing increased security concerns on its borders from various external threats including insecurity in Libya and spillover from the rebellion in Mali."
    }
  },
  "geo": {
    "location": {
      "text": "Western Africa, southeast of Algeria"
    },
    "geographic_coordinates": {
      "text": "16 00 N, 8 00 E"
    },
    "map_references": {
      "text": "Africa"
    },
    "area": {
      "total": "1.267 million sq km",
      "land": "1,266,700 sq km",
      "water": "300 sq km"
    },
    "area_comparative": {
      "text": "slightly less than twice the size of Texas"
    },
    "land_boundaries": {
      "total": "5,697 km",
      "border_countries": "Algeria 956 km, Benin 266 km, Burkina Faso 628 km, Chad 1,175 km, Libya 354 km, Mali 821 km, Nigeria 1,497 km"
    },
    "coastline": {
      "text": "0 km (landlocked)"
    },
    "maritime_claims": {
      "text": "none (landlocked)"
    },
    "climate": {
      "text": "desert; mostly hot, dry, dusty; tropical in extreme south"
    },
    "terrain": {
      "text": "predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north"
    },
    "elevation_extremes": {
      "lowest_point": "Niger River 200 m",
      "highest_point": "Idoukal-n-Taghes 2,022 m"
    },
    "natural_resources": {
      "text": "uranium, coal, iron ore, tin, phosphates, gold, molybdenum, gypsum, salt, petroleum"
    },
    "land_use": {
      "arable_land": "11.79%",
      "permanent_crops": "0.05%",
      "other": "88.16% (2011)"
    },
    "irrigated_land": {
      "text": "736.6 sq km (2005)"
    },
    "total_renewable_water_resources": {
      "text": "33.65 cu km (2011)"
    },
    "freshwater_withdrawal_domestic_industrial_agricultural": {
      "total": "0.98  cu km/yr (30%/3%/67%)",
      "per_capita": "70.53  cu m/yr (2005)"
    },
    "natural_hazards": {
      "text": "recurring droughts"
    },
    "environment_current_issues": {
      "text": "overgrazing; soil erosion; deforestation; desertification; wildlife populations (such as elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, and lion) threatened because of poaching and habitat destruction"
    },
    "environment_international_agreements": {
      "party_to": "Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands",
      "signed_but_not_ratified": "Law of the Sea"
    },
    "geography_note": {
      "text": "landlocked; one of the hottest countries in the world; northern four-fifths is desert, southern one-fifth is savanna, suitable for livestock and limited agriculture"
    }
  },
  "people": {
    "nationality": {
      "noun": "Nigerien(s)",
      "adjective": "Nigerien"
    },
    "ethnic_groups": {
      "text": "Haoussa 55.4%, Djerma Sonrai 21%, Tuareg 9.3%, Peuhl 8.5%, Kanouri Manga 4.7%, other 1.2% (2001 census)"
    },
    "languages": {
      "text": "French (official), Hausa, Djerma"
    },
    "religions": {
      "text": "Muslim 80%, other (includes indigenous beliefs and Christian) 20%"
    },
    "population": {
      "text": "16,899,327 (July 2013 est.)"
    },
    "age_structure": {
      "0_14_years": "50% (male 4,261,662/female 4,183,112)",
      "15_24_years": "18.2% (male 1,519,241/female 1,557,267)",
      "25_54_years": "25.9% (male 2,188,451/female 2,194,606)",
      "55_64_years": "3.3% (male 283,955/female 265,460)",
      "65_years_and_over": "2.6% (male 226,454/female 219,119) (2013 est.)"
    },
    "dependency_ratios": {
      "total_dependency_ratio": "111.5 %",
      "youth_dependency_ratio": "105.9 %",
      "elderly_dependency_ratio": "5.5 %",
      "potential_support_ratio": "18.1 (2013)"
    },
    "median_age": {
      "total": "15 years",
      "male": "14.9 years",
      "female": "15.1 years (2013 est.)"
    },
    "population_growth_rate": {
      "text": "3.32% (2013 est.)"
    },
    "birth_rate": {
      "text": "46.84 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)"
    },
    "death_rate": {
      "text": "13.07 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)"
    },
    "net_migration_rate": {
      "text": "-0.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)"
    },
    "urbanization": {
      "urban_population": "17.8% of total population (2011)",
      "rate_of_urbanization": "4.91% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)"
    },
    "major_urban_areas_population": {
      "text": "NIAMEY (capital) 1.004 million (2009)"
    },
    "sex_ratio": {
      "at_birth": "1.03 male(s)/female",
      "0_14_years": "1.02 male(s)/female",
      "15_24_years": "0.98 male(s)/female",
      "25_54_years": "1 male(s)/female",
      "55_64_years": "1.07 male(s)/female",
      "65_years_and_over": "1.03 male(s)/female",
      "total_population": "1.01 male(s)/female (2013 est.)"
    },
    "mother_s_mean_age_at_first_birth": {
      "text": "18 (2006 est.)"
    },
    "maternal_mortality_rate": {
      "text": "590 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)"
    },
    "infant_mortality_rate": {
      "total": "87.98 deaths/1,000 live births",
      "male": "92.64 deaths/1,000 live births",
      "female": "83.17 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)"
    },
    "life_expectancy_at_birth": {
      "total_population": "54.34 years",
      "male": "53.17 years",
      "female": "55.55 years (2013 est.)"
    },
    "total_fertility_rate": {
      "text": "7.03 children born/woman (2013 est.)"
    },
    "contraceptive_prevalence_rate": {
      "text": "13.9% (2012)"
    },
    "health_expenditures": {
      "text": "5.2% of GDP (2010)"
    },
    "physicians_density": {
      "text": "0.02 physicians/1,000 population (2008)"
    },
    "hospital_bed_density": {
      "text": "0.31 beds/1,000 population (2005)"
    },
    "drinking_water_source": {
      "improved": "urban: 100% of population; rural: 39% of population; total: 49% of population",
      "unimproved": "urban: 0% of population; rural: 61% of population; total: 51% of population (2010 est.)"
    },
    "sanitation_facility_access": {
      "improved": "urban: 34% of population; rural: 4% of population; total: 9% of population",
      "unimproved": "urban: 66% of population; rural: 96% of population; total: 91% of population (2010 est.)"
    },
    "hiv_aids_adult_prevalence_rate": {
      "text": "0.8% (2009 est.)"
    },
    "hiv_aids_people_living_with_hiv_aids": {
      "text": "61,000 (2009 est.)"
    },
    "hiv_aids_deaths": {
      "text": "4,300 (2009 est.)"
    },
    "major_infectious_diseases": {
      "degree_of_risk": "very high",
      "food_or_waterborne_diseases": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever",
      "vectorborne_diseases": "malaria and dengue fever",
      "water_contact_disease": "schistosomiasis",
      "respiratory_disease": "meningococcal meningitis",
      "animal_contact_disease": "rabies",
      "note": "highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2013)"
    },
    "obesity_adult_prevalence_rate": {
      "text": "2.4% (2008)"
    },
    "children_under_the_age_of_5_years_underweight": {
      "text": "39.9% (2006)"
    },
    "education_expenditures": {
      "text": "4.5% of GDP (2011)"
    },
    "literacy": {
      "definition": "age 15 and over can read and write",
      "total_population": "28.7%",
      "male": "42.9%",
      "female": "15.1% (2005 est.)"
    },
    "school_life_expectancy_primary_to_tertiary_education": {
      "total": "5 years",
      "male": "6 years",
      "female": "5 years (2011)"
    },
    "child_labor_children_ages_5_14": {
      "total_number": "1,557,913",
      "percentage": "43 % (2006 est.)"
    },
    "unemployment_youth_ages_15_24": {
      "total": "3.2%",
      "male": "4%",
      "female": "1.7% (2001)"
    }
  },
  "govt": {
    "country_name": {
      "conventional_long_form": "Republic of Niger",
      "conventional_short_form": "Niger",
      "local_long_form": "Republique du Niger",
      "local_short_form": "Niger"
    },
    "government_type": {
      "text": "republic"
    },
    "capital": {
      "name": "Niamey",
      "geographic_coordinates": "13 31 N, 2 07 E",
      "time_difference": "UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)"
    },
    "administrative_divisions": {
      "text": "8 regions (regions, singular - region) includes 1 capital district* (communite urbaine); Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey*, Tahoua, Tillaberi, Zinder"
    },
    "independence": {
      "text": "3 August 1960 (from France)"
    },
    "national_holiday": {
      "text": "Republic Day, 18 December (1958); note - commemorates the founding of the Republic of Niger which predated independence from France in 1960"
    },
    "constitution": {
      "text": "adopted 31 October 2010"
    },
    "legal_system": {
      "text": "mixed legal system of civil law (based on French civil law), Islamic law, and customary law"
    },
    "international_law_organization_participation": {
      "text": "has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; accepts ICCt jurisdiction"
    },
    "suffrage": {
      "text": "18 years of age; universal"
    },
    "executive_branch": {
      "chief_of_state": "President ISSOUFOU Mahamadou (since 7 April 2011)",
      "head_of_government": "Prime Minister Brigi RAFINI (since 7 April 2011); appointed by the president and shares some executive responsibilities with the president",
      "cabinet": "26-member Cabinet appointed by the president",
      "elections": "president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); candidate must receive a majority of the votes to be elected president; a presidential election to restore civilian rule was held 31 January 2011 with a runoff election between ISSOUFOU Mahamadou and Seini OUMAROU held on 12 March 2011",
      "election_results": "ISSOUFOU Mahamadou elected president in a runoff election; percent of vote - ISSOUFOU Mahamadou 58%, Seini OUMAROU 42%"
    },
    "legislative_branch": {
      "text": "unicameral National Assembly (113 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms)",
      "elections": "last held on 31 January 2011",
      "election_results": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PNDS-Tarrayya 39, MNSD-Nassara 26, MODEN/FA-Lumana 24, ANDP-Zaman Lahiya 8, RDP-Jama'a 7, UDR-Tabbat 6, CDS-Rahama 2, UNI 1"
    },
    "judicial_branch": {
      "highest_courts": "Constitutional Court (consists of 7 judges); High Court of Justice (consists of 7 members)",
      "judge_selection_and_term_of_office": "Constitutional Court judges appointed by the president; judges serve 6-year nonrenewable consecutive terms; High Judicial Court members selected from among the legislature and judiciary; members serve 5-year terms",
      "subordinate_courts": "Court of Cassation; Council of State; Court of Finances; various specialized tribunals and customary courts"
    },
    "political_parties_and_leaders": {
      "text": "Democratic and Social Convention-Rahama or CDS-Rahama [Mahamane OUSMANE]; National Movement for a Developing Society-Nassara or MNSD-Nassara; Niger Social Democratic Party or PSDN; Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Social Progress-Zaman Lahiya or ANDP-Zaman Lahiya [Moumouni DJERMAKOYE]; Nigerien Democratic Movement for an African Federation or MODEN/FA Lumana; Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism or PNDS-Tarrayya [ISSOUFOU Mahamadou]; Rally for Democracy and Progress-Jama'a or RDP-Jama'a [Hamid ALGABID]; Social and Democratic Rally or RSD-Gaskiyya [Cheiffou AMADOU]; Union for Democracy and the Republic-Tabbat or UDR-Tabbat; Union of Independent Nigeriens or UNI; note: the SPLM and SPLM-DC are banned political parties"
    },
    "political_pressure_groups_and_leaders": {
      "text": "The Nigerien Movement for Justice or MNJ, a predominantly Tuareg rebel group"
    },
    "international_organization_participation": {
      "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, CD, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
    },
    "diplomatic_representation_in_the_us": {
      "chief_of_mission": "Ambassador Mamon Sambo SIDIKOU",
      "chancery": "2204 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008",
      "telephone": "[1] (202) 483-4224 through 4227",
      "fax": "[1] (202)483-3169"
    },
    "diplomatic_representation_from_the_us": {
      "chief_of_mission": "Ambassador Bisa WILLIAMS",
      "embassy": "Rue Des Ambassades, Niamey",
      "mailing_address": "B. P. 11201, Niamey; Public Affairs Section (PAS), 2420 Niamey PL, Dulles, VA 20189-2420",
      "telephone": "[227] 20-73-31-69 or [227] 20-72-39-41",
      "fax": "[227] 20-73-55-60"
    },
    "flag_description": {
      "text": "three equal horizontal bands of orange (top), white, and green with a small orange disk centered in the white band; the orange band denotes the drier northern regions of the Sahara; white stands for purity and innocence; green symbolizes hope and the fertile and productive southern and western areas, as well as the Niger River; the orange disc represents the sun and the sacrifices made by the people",
      "note": "similar to the flag of India, which has a blue spoked wheel centered in the white band"
    },
    "national_anthem": {
      "name": "\"La Nigerienne\" (The Nigerian)",
      "lyrics_music": "Maurice Albert THIRIET/Robert JACQUET and Nicolas Abel Francois FRIONNET",
      "note": "adopted 1961"
    }
  },
  "econ": {
    "economy_overview": {
      "text": "Niger is a landlocked, Sub-Saharan nation, whose economy centers on subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium deposits. Agriculture contributes about 40% of GDP and provides livelihood for about 90% of the population. Niger also has sizable reserves of oil, and oil production, refining, and exports are expected to grow significantly between 2011 and 2016. Drought, desertification, and strong population growth have undercut the economy. Niger shares a common currency, the CFA franc, and a common central bank, the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), with seven other members of the West African Monetary Union. In December 2000, Niger qualified for enhanced debt relief under the International Monetary Fund program for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) and concluded an agreement with the Fund on a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). Debt relief provided under the enhanced HIPC initiative significantly reduced Niger's annual debt service obligations, freeing funds for expenditures on basic health care, primary education, HIV/AIDS prevention, rural infrastructure, and other programs geared at poverty reduction. In December 2005, Niger received 100% multilateral debt relief from the IMF, which translated into the forgiveness of approximately US$86 million in debts to the IMF, excluding the remaining assistance under HIPC. The economy was hurt when the international community cut off non-humanitarian aid in response to TANDJA's moves to extend his term as president. Nearly half of the government's budget is derived from foreign donor resources. Future growth may be sustained by exploitation of oil, gold, coal, and other mineral resources. The government, however, has made efforts to secure a new three-year extended credit facility with the IMF following the one that completed in 2011. Oil revenue to the government has fallen well short of its budgeted level. Strikes risk undermining political stability. Food security remains a problem in Niger and is exacerbated by refugees from Mali."
    },
    "gdp_purchasing_power_parity": {
      "text": "$13.34 billion (2012 est.); $12 billion (2011 est.); $11.74 billion (2010 est.)",
      "note": "data are in 2012 US dollars"
    },
    "gdp_official_exchange_rate": {
      "text": "$6.575 billion (2012 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_real_growth_rate": {
      "text": "11.2% (2012 est.); 2.2% (2011 est.); 10.7% (2010 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_per_capita_ppp": {
      "text": "$800 (2012 est.); $800 (2011 est.); $800 (2010 est.)",
      "note": "data are in 2012 US dollars"
    },
    "gross_national_saving": {
      "text": "30.6% of GDP (2012 est.); 26.5% of GDP (2011 est.); 21.5% of GDP (2010 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_composition_by_end_use": {
      "household_consumption": "67.9%",
      "government_consumption": "18%",
      "investment_in_fixed_capital": "56.1%",
      "investment_in_inventories": "0%",
      "exports_of_goods_and_services": "24.5%",
      "imports_of_goods_and_services": "-66.6% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "gdp_composition_by_sector_of_origin": {
      "agriculture": "39.6%",
      "industry": "17.1%",
      "services": "43.2% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "agriculture_products": {
      "text": "cowpeas, cotton, peanuts, millet, sorghum, cassava (manioc), rice; cattle, sheep, goats, camels, donkeys, horses, poultry"
    },
    "industries": {
      "text": "uranium mining, cement, brick, soap, textiles, food processing, chemicals, slaughterhouses"
    },
    "industrial_production_growth_rate": {
      "text": "12.6% (2012 est.)"
    },
    "labor_force": {
      "text": "4.688 million (2007)"
    },
    "labor_force_by_occupation": {
      "agriculture": "90%",
      "industry": "6%",
      "services": "4% (1995)"
    },
    "unemployment_rate": {
      "text": "NA%"
    },
    "population_below_poverty_line": {
      "text": "63% (1993 est.)"
    },
    "household_income_or_consumption_by_percentage_share": {
      "lowest_10%": "3.7%",
      "highest_10%": "28.5% (2007)"
    },
    "distribution_of_family_income_gini_index": {
      "text": "34 (2007); 50.5 (1995)"
    },
    "budget": {
      "revenues": "$1.698 billion (2012 est.)",
      "expenditures": "$1.871 billion (2012 est.)"
    },
    "taxes_and_other_revenues": {
      "text": "25.8% of GDP (2012 est.)"
    },
    "budget_surplus_+_or_deficit": {
      "text": "-2.6% of GDP (2012 est.)"
    },
    "fiscal_year": {
      "text": "calendar year"
    },
    "inflation_rate_consumer_prices": {
      "text": "0.5% (2012 est.); 2.9% (2011 est.)"
    },
    "central_bank_discount_rate": {
      "text": "4.25% (31 December 2009); 4.75% (31 December 2008)"
    },
    "commercial_bank_prime_lending_rate": {
      "text": "4% (31 December 2012 est.); 4.3% (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_narrow_money": {
      "text": "$1.284 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $939.7 million (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_broad_money": {
      "text": "$1.201 billion (31 December 2011 est.); $1.171 billion (31 December 2010 est.)"
    },
    "stock_of_domestic_credit": {
      "text": "$915 million (31 December 2012 est.); $825.3 million (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "market_value_of_publicly_traded_shares": {
      "text": "$NA"
    },
    "current_account_balance": {
      "text": "-$1.628 billion (2012 est.); -$1.697 billion (2011 est.)"
    },
    "exports": {
      "text": "$1.389 billion (2012 est.); $1.233 billion (2011 est.)"
    },
    "exports_commodities": {
      "text": "uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions"
    },
    "exports_partners": {
      "text": "Nigeria 41%, US 17%, India 14.1%, Italy 8.5%, China 7.7%, Ghana 5.7% (2012)"
    },
    "imports": {
      "text": "$2.328 billion (2012 est.); $2.217 billion (2011 est.)"
    },
    "imports_commodities": {
      "text": "foodstuffs, machinery, vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals"
    },
    "imports_partners": {
      "text": "France 14.2%, China 11.1%, French Polynesia 9.9%, Nigeria 9.7%, Togo 5.5% (2012)"
    },
    "debt_external": {
      "text": "$1.543 billion (31 December 2012 est.); $1.408 billion (31 December 2011 est.)"
    },
    "exchange_rates": {
      "text": "Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar -; 510.53 (2012 est.); 471.87 (2011 est.); 495.28 (2010); 472.19 (2009); 447.81 (2008)"
    }
  },
  "energy": {
    "electricity_production": {
      "text": "210 million kWh (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_consumption": {
      "text": "695.3 million kWh (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_exports": {
      "text": "0 kWh (2010 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_imports": {
      "text": "500 million kWh (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_installed_generating_capacity": {
      "text": "145,000 kW (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_fossil_fuels": {
      "text": "100% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_nuclear_fuels": {
      "text": "0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_hydroelectric_plants": {
      "text": "0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "electricity_from_other_renewable_sources": {
      "text": "0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_production": {
      "text": "6,712 bbl/day (2011 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_exports": {
      "text": "0 bbl/day (2009 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_imports": {
      "text": "0 bbl/day (2009 est.)"
    },
    "crude_oil_proved_reserves": {
      "text": "NA bbl (1 January 2012 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_production": {
      "text": "0 bbl/day (2008 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_consumption": {
      "text": "5,629 bbl/day (2011 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_exports": {
      "text": "0 bbl/day (2008 est.)"
    },
    "refined_petroleum_products_imports": {
      "text": "3,330 bbl/day (2008 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_production": {
      "text": "0 cu m (2010 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_consumption": {
      "text": "0 cu m (2010 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_exports": {
      "text": "0 cu m (2010 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_imports": {
      "text": "0 cu m (2010 est.)"
    },
    "natural_gas_proved_reserves": {
      "text": "0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)"
    },
    "carbon_dioxide_emissions_from_consumption_of_energy": {
      "text": "1.796 million Mt (2010 est.)"
    }
  },
  "comm": {
    "telephones_main_lines_in_use": {
      "text": "85,900 (2011)"
    },
    "telephones_mobile_cellular": {
      "text": "4.743 million (2011)"
    },
    "telephone_system": {
      "general_assessment": "inadequate; small system of wire, radio telephone communications, and microwave radio relay links concentrated in the southwestern area of Niger",
      "domestic": "combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains only about 30 per 100 persons despite a rapidly increasing cellular subscribership base; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned",
      "international": "country code - 227; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2010)"
    },
    "broadcast_media": {
      "text": "state-run TV station; 3 private TV stations provide a mix of local and foreign programming; state-run radio has only radio station with a national reach; about 30 private radio stations operate locally; as many as 100 community radio stations broadcast; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2007)"
    },
    "internet_country_code": {
      "text": ".ne"
    },
    "internet_hosts": {
      "text": "454 (2012)"
    },
    "internet_users": {
      "text": "115,900 (2009)"
    }
  },
  "trans": {
    "airports": {
      "text": "30 (2013)"
    },
    "airports_with_paved_runways": {
      "total": "10",
      "2_438_to_3_047_m": "3",
      "1_524_to_2_437_m": "6",
      "914_to_1_523_m": "1 (2013)"
    },
    "airports_with_unpaved_runways": {
      "total": "20",
      "1_524_to_2_437_m": "3",
      "914_to_1_523_m": "15",
      "under_914_m": "2 (2013)"
    },
    "heliports": {
      "text": "1 (2013)"
    },
    "roadways": {
      "total": "18,949 km",
      "paved": "3,912 km",
      "unpaved": "15,037 km (2008)"
    },
    "waterways": {
      "text": "300 km (the Niger, the only major river, is navigable to Gaya between September and March) (2012)"
    }
  },
  "military": {
    "military_branches": {
      "text": "Nigerien Armed Forces (Forces Armees Nigeriennes, FAN): Army, Nigerien Air Force (Force Aerienne du Niger) (2012)"
    },
    "military_service_age_and_obligation": {
      "text": "18 is the presumed legal minimum age for compulsory or voluntary military service; enlistees must be Nigerien citizens and unmarried; 2-year service term; women may serve in health care (2012)"
    },
    "manpower_available_for_military_service": {
      "males_age_16_49": "3,329,184",
      "females_age_16_49": "3,267,669 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "manpower_fit_for_military_service": {
      "males_age_16_49": "2,194,570",
      "females_age_16_49": "2,219,416 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "manpower_reaching_militarily_significant_age_annually": {
      "male": "186,348",
      "female": "180,779 (2010 est.)"
    },
    "military_expenditures": {
      "text": "0.9% of GDP (2012)"
    }
  },
  "issues": {
    "disputes_international": {
      "text": "Libya claims about 25,000 sq km in a currently dormant dispute in the Tommo region; location of Benin-Niger-Nigeria tripoint is unresolved; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty that also includes the Chad-Niger and Niger-Nigeria boundaries; the dispute with Burkina Faso was referred to the ICJ in 2010"
    },
    "refugees_and_internally_displaced_persons": {
      "refugees_country_of_origin": "50,000 (Mali) (2013)",
      "idps": "undetermined (unknown how many of the 11,000 people displaced by clashes between government forces and the Tuareg militant group, Niger Movement for Justice, in 2007 are still displaced; inter-communal violence) (2012)"
    }
  }
}