Not until 1993, 33 years after independence from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A 1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the north. This relative stability was recently disrupted by a 1996 Coup.
Demographic Data
Capital: Niamey
Government type: Military Dictatorship
Government stability: 55.1%
Government efficiency: 21.9%
Population's support to government: 55.1%
Area: 1,266,700 square kilometers
Habitable land: 12.0%
Farmable land: 3.0%
Total population: 9,280 thousands
Population's growth: 3.4%
Country's development level: 2,040
Economic Data
GNP: 4,600,000,000
Industralisation: 17.0%
International funding: 0
Political Data
Secret services efficiency: 1,183
Military Data
Technological generation: 1
Number of rebels: 3,619
Rebels development: 1,836
Rebels technological access: 1,427