Ethiopia  
   
Geography
Location: Eastern Africa, west of Somalia.
Area: total: 1,104,300 sq km
land: 1 million sq km
water: 104,300 sq km
Natural Resources: Small reserves of gold, Platinum, Copper, Potash, Natural Gas, Hydropower
Population and Health
Population:  88,013,491 (July 2010 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 46.2% (male 20,289,078/female 20,374,069)
15-64 years: 51.1% (male 22,026,024/female 22,977,746)
65 years and over: 2.7% (male 1,006,149/female 1,340,425) (2010 est.)
Population growth rate: 3.202% (2010 est.)
Birth rate:

43.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
Death rate:  11.29 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.96 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 78.99 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 90.08 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 67.56 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.) 
Life expectancy at birth:  total population: 55.8 years
country comparison to the world: 197
male: 53.28 years
female: 58.39 years (2010 est.)
Total fertility rate: 6.07 children born/woman (2010 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  2.1% (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  980,000 (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  67,000 (2007 est.)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 42.7%
male: 50.3%
female: 35.1% (2003 est.)
Economy
GDP (purchasing power parity): 

$76.74 billion (2009 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): 

$34.32 billion (2009 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 

8% (2009 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): 

$900 (2009 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 43.5%
industry: 13.4%
services: 43.1% (2009 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: 

agriculture: 85%
industry: 5%
services: 10% (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):

8.5% (2009 est.)
Agriculture - products:

cereals, pulses, coffee, oilseed, cotton, sugarcane, potatoes, qat, cut flowers; hides, cattle, sheep, goats; fish

Industries:

food processing, beverages, textiles, leather, chemicals, metals processing, cement

Industrial production growth rate:

9.9% (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:

coffee, qat, gold, leather products, live animals, oilseeds

Others
Nationality: noun: Ethiopian(s)
adjective: Ethiopian

Religions: 

Christian 60.8% (Orthodox 50.6%, Protestant 10.2%), Muslim 32.8%, traditional 4.6%, other 1.8% (1994 census)

Languages: 

Amarigna 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census) 
Country name:

conventional long form: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
conventional short form: Ethiopia
local long form: Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik
local short form: Ityop'iya
former: Abyssinia, Italian East Africa
abbreviation: FDRE

Government type: 

Federal Republic
Capital:

name: Addis Ababa
geographic coordinates: 9 02 N, 38 42 E
time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

Administrative divisions:

9 ethnically based states (kililoch, singular - kilil) and 2 self-governing administrations* (astedaderoch, singular - astedader); Adis Abeba* (Addis Ababa), Afar, Amara (Amhara), Binshangul Gumuz, Dire Dawa*, Gambela Hizboch (Gambela Peoples), Hareri Hizb (Harari People), Oromiya (Oromia), Sumale (Somali), Tigray, Ye Debub Biheroch Bihereseboch na Hizboch (Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples)
Independence: 

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

Legal system: based on civil law; currently transitional mix of national and regional courts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
 
 

 
 

Source :

CIA The World Factbook