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Map of Somalia Last reviewed: 21 May 2009

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TRADE AND INVESTMENT

Trade and Investment with the UK

UK Exports of goods to Somalia: £1.37 million (2008) - mainly power generating equipment and machinery (£518,000), road vehicles (£278,000) and professional scientific controlling instruments (£257,000)  

UK Imports of goods from Somalia: £40,000 (2008)

The number of UK citizens living and working in Somalia is not known.

Development

60% of Somalia’s population lives below the $1 per day poverty line. Human development indicators are uniformly low: only 14% of school age children attend school; Somalia has the worst health indicators in Africa with less than 0.5 doctors and two nurses per 100,000 people. Public service delivery is rudimentary in Somaliland and Puntland, and non-existent elsewhere. Where health and education services are provided by NGOs or UN agencies they are mainly operated by community-based local authorities. Providing development assistance to a needy country in the absence of functioning public institutions is a particular challenge. The UN leads with a humanitarian and development programme based in Nairobi.

The Department for International Development's total development budget for Somalia for 2008-09 was £21m.  In addition, they gave £14m for humanitarian support.  For 2009-10 their total development budget is also £21m.


DFID Country Profile: Somalia

DFID Country Engagement Plan for Somalia (03/11/04)

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