In 1906 it was estimated that there were 3,104 Europeans and 9,815 Abyssinians, Egyptians, and Indians in Sudan; that in 1907 there were 3,914 and 17,030, respectively; and that “there has been a remarkable increase in the number both of European merchants and skilled artisans and of Egyptian artisans and labourers.”Report by Her Majesty's Agent and Consul General on the Finances, Administration, and Condition of Egypt and the Sudan in 1907, London: H.M.S.O., Cd. 3966, Egypt Report No. 1, 1908, p. 43. In 1912 there were 3,848 European foreigners in Sudan, and 24,935 non-European foreigners. Some 2,604 of the former were in Khartoum, and 10,380 of the latter, Memorandum from Lieutenant-General Sir R. Wingate to Field Marshal Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, on the Finances, Administration, and Condition of the Sudan, 1912, London: H.M.S.O., 1913, II, 24.
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The Sudan's 1961/62 cotton crop is estimated to be 1,137,221 bales, mostly long-staple from Gezira. The value of Sudan cotton exports averages out to be approximately 2 per cent of tropical Africa's exports (excluding the Union).
