SUDAN’S REPORT For United Nations’ Third Conference On Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, (Habitat III), 2016
The population of Sudan reached 30.9 million people in the last population census (2008), and is
projected to reach 39.7 people by 2016, growing at a 2.8% growth rate per annum. With this rate
of increase the population could double up in in about 16 years.
The urban population constituted about 29.8% of the total 2008 population, which indicates that