ACOG - Ethiopia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Eastern Africa, west of Somalia

Area:
total area: 1,127,127 sq km
land area: 1,119,683 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 5,311 km, Djibouti 337 km, Eritrea 912 km, Kenya 830 km, Somalia 1,626 km, Sudan 1,606 km

Coastline:


People

Population: 55,979,018 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 46% (female 12,782,345; male 12,802,187)
15-64 years: 52% (female 14,352,059; male 14,511,342)
65 years and over: 2% (female 815,974; male 715,111)

Population growth rate: 3.09% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 46.68 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 15.77 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 120.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 50 years
male: 48.28 years
female: 51.78 years

Total fertility rate: 7.07 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigrean 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1%

Religions: Muslim 45%-50%, Ethiopian Orthodox 35%-40%, animist 12%, other 5%

Languages: Amharic (official), Tigrinya, Orominga, Guaraginga, Somali, Arabic,English (major foreign language taught in schools)

Literacy: age 10 and over can read and write (1984)
total population: 24%
male: 33%
female: 16%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Ethiopia

Type: transitional government

Capital: Addis Ababa

Independence: oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world- at least 2,000 years

Constitution: new constitution promulgated in December 1994


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $20.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 3%

National product per capita: $380

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 460,000 kW
production: 1.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 23 kWh



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