Introduction
Togo is one of the smallest States in West Africa with a total area of 56,785 km2 for 7.93 million people in 2018, stretching over about 600 km from North to South with a breadth not exceeding 160 km and a maritime coast of 56 km along the Gulf of Guinea between Benin and two major West African Anglophone countries (Ghana-West and Nigeria-East). It is located at 6°06′ Southern and 11°08′ Northern latitudes, and 0°09 Western and 1°49 Eastern longitudes. There are about 50 ethnic groups in the country. None of them is a majority ethnic group, but Ewe, Kabyè, Kotokoli, and Moba represent over 40% of the people. Togo’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is US $ 5.35 billion for a total population of 7.93 million people in 2018.
After becoming a sovereign nation in 1960, Togo has adopted an economic development Policy based on Agriculture and building and civil engineering works and mining. But, despite this political will, the GDP per capita did not exceed US $ 675 in 2018, and...
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Messan, K.A. (2023). Togo: Mineral Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47493-8_225
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