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ETHIOPIA
Republic of EthiopiaGEOGRAPHY:
- Location:-------------- Eastern Africa
- Area:
Total area:--- 1,127,127 sq. km
Land area:--- 1,119,683 sq. km
- Capital city:----------- Addis Ababa
- Natural Resources:------------- Small reserves
of gold, platinum, copper, potash
PEOPLE: - Population:------------- 58,390,351
- Literacy Rate:------------ 35.5% of total population, (Males:45.5%, Females:25.3%)
- Languages:----------------
Amharic (official), Tigrinya, Orominga, Guaraginga, Somali, Arabic, English (major foreign language taught in schools)
- Religions:--------------- 45-50%-Muslim, 35-40%-Ethiopian Orthodox, 12%-animist, 3%-8%-other
VITAL STATISTICS:
- Birth Rate:----------------- 45.59 (per 1,000 population)(1997)
- Death
Rate:----------------- 17.56 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant Mortality Rate:------------ 121.5
(deaths per 1,000 live births)
- Fertility Rate:--------------- 6.94 (per woman)
- Life Expectancy at Birth:
Total Population:--- 46.62 (Males:45.48, Females:47.8)
GOVERNMENT:
- Type of Government:--------------- Federal Republic
- Independence:-----------------
Oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world - at least 2,000 years
- President:----------------
Negasso Ghidada
- Prime Minister:-------------- Meles Zenawi
ECONOMY:
- GDP:------------------ purchasing power parity - $24.8 billion
GDP real growth rate:--- 7.7%
GDP per capita:--- $430
- Inflation Rate (consumer prices):--------------
10%
- National budget:
Revenues:--- $1 billion
Expenditures:----
$1.48 billion
- External Debt:---------------- $4.3 billion
- Currency:--------------
1 birr = 100 cents
- Labor force:-------------- 18 million
- Unemployment
Rate:------------ NA%
- Agriculture:--------------- Cereals, pulses, oilseed, sugarcane, potatoes,
other vegetables; hides, cattle, sheep, goats
- Industries:--------------- Food processing, beverages,
textiles, chemicals, metals processing, cement
- Exports:---------------- $423 million
Commodities:--- Coffee, leather products, gold.
- Imports:---------------- $1.15 billion
Commodities:--- Capital goods, consumer goods, fuel
DEFENCE: - Defence
Expenditures:----------- Exchange rate conversion - $110 million, NA% of GDP
Geography:Ethiopia
is in east central Africa , bordered on the west by Sudan , the east by Somalia , the south by Kenya and northeast by Eritrea
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