Togo - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
geographic coordinates: 6 07 N, 1 13 E
time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
etymology: Lome comes from "alotime" which in the native Ewe language means "among the alo plants"; alo trees dominated the city's original founding site
citizenship by descent only: at least one parent must be a citizen of Togo
dual citizenship recognized: yes
residency requirement for naturalization: 5 years
land: 54,385 sq km
water: 2,400 sq km
arable land: 45.2% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 3.8% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 18.4% (2018 est.)
forest: 4.9% (2018 est.)
other: 27.7% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 56.76% (male 2,413,709/female 2,526,816)
65 years and over: 4.26% (2023 est.) (male 153,461/female 216,946)
male: 69.1 years
female: 74.4 years
male: 19.8 years
female: 21.3 years
note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29
rate of urbanization: 3.6% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
male: 14 years
female: 12 years (2017)
3.94% (2020 est.)
3.72% (2019 est.)
81.6% of GDP (2016 est.)
0.69% (2019 est.)
0.93% (2018 est.)
$1.665 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$1.703 billion (2018 est.)
$2.261 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$2.329 billion (2018 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 0.6 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 35% (2021 est.)
narrow gauge: 568 km (2014) 1.000-m gauge
paved: 1,794 km (2018)
unpaved: 8,157 km (2018)
urban: 1,783 km (2018)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: (2021 est.) less than 1
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 72 (2021 est.)
Togo-Benin: in 2001, Benin claimed Togo moved boundary monuments - joint commission continues to resurvey the boundary; Benin’s and Togo’s Adjrala hydroelectric dam project on the Mona River, proposed in the 1990s, commenced in 2017 with funding from a Chinese bank
Togo-Burkina Faso: none identified
Togo-Ghana: none identified