- Capital: Lome
- POPULATION: 5.549 Million
- LANGUAGES: French(official)
- Median age: 18
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 37.01
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 9.83
- Life expectancy: 57.42
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 60.9%
  male: 75.4%
  female: 46.9% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 27 April 1960 from French-administered UN trusteeship
- GDP per capita: $1,700

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