ETHIOPIA Republic of Ethiopia

GEOGRAPHY:

• 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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