44 Significant Facts About Togo

Last updated on April 19th, 2019

27. Togo is a member of West African economic and monetary union. The foreign and domestic investors are treated equally.

28. Togo’s safe territorial waters have become good zones for international shippers amid a regional surge in maritime piracy.

29. Togo is one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate, with coffee, cocoa and cotton accounting for 20 percent of export earnings.

30. In the year 2014, the federal government of Togo reduced fees payed by businesses to register with tax authorities and implemented electronic customs system to simplify importing and exporting process.

Government and poverty

31. There is high infant mortality. 100 children out of 1,000 die before they reach five years, owing to lack of resources such as water, road infrastructure, medical facilities and good education on nutrition to parents.

32. Togolese health care system is poor due to lack of resources to put up modern health facilities and high population growth rate.

33. Togo has a low percentage of educated adults, the highest number being women who can not read and write.

34. Little funds allocated to youth development projects has led to the increase in poverty hence more crimes.

35. The Togo government only provides 24.7 percent of the money required for education.

36. Education in Togo is of low quality. This has led to graduates who are not fully baked to run the current dynamic world.

37. Togo is ranked forty-fourth position out of the fifty most underdeveloped countries in the world. This reflects low per capita income of the general population of Togo.

38. Togo ranks 165th on 2017 United Nations Human Development Index.

39. Human trafficking is widespread in Togo. Children, especially girls are sold to forms of exploitative arrangements, which amount to slavery.

Geography

40. The Mont Agou at 986 m above sea level is the highest mountain in Togo.

41. The Mono River with a length of 400 km, running from north to south, is the longest river in the country.

42. It is a long, thin country in West Africa (See the map above.)

43. Considering its area, Togo (56,785 kilometer square) is approximately twice the size of Maryland (32,134 kilometer square.)

44. Togo has 3 National Parks, 10 faunal reserves, and 84 forest reserves.

Some health statistics

As per WHO, the top ten causes of death in Togo included: Lower respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Diarrhoeal diseases, Stroke, Premature birth complications, Birth asphyxia and birth trauma, Meningitis, Ischaemic heart disease and Protein-energy malnutrition.

Togo – country at a glance