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:  96,633,458 (July 2014 est.)
Age structure:

0-14 years: 44.2% (male 21,376,243/female 21,308,454)
15-24 years: 19.9% (male 9,557,462/female 9,692,275)
25-54 years: 29.2% (male 14,023,218/female 14,176,263)
55-64 years: 2.8% (male 1,826,602/female 1,919,212)
65 years and over: 2.8% (male 1,242,171/female 1,511,558) (2014 est.)

Population growth rate: 2.89% (2014 est.)
Birth rate:

37.66 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Death rate:  8.52 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.)
Sex ratio: 

at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.83 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2014 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

total: 55.77 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 63.77 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 47.53 deaths/1,000 live births (2014 est.)  
Life expectancy at birth: 

total population: 60.75 years
male: 58.43 years
female: 63.15 years (2014 est.)

Total fertility rate: 65.23 children born/woman (2014 est.)
Current contraceptive use among married women 15-49 years old(any method):  29% (2007-2012)
Unmet need of contraceptive:  26.3% (2011)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  758,600 (2012)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  47,200 (2012)
Literacy:

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 39%
male: 49.1%
female: 28.9% (2007 est.)

Economy
GDP (purchasing power parity): 

$118.2 billion (2013 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate): 

$47.34 billion (2013 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 

7% (2013 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP): 

$1,300 (2013 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 47%
industry: 10.8%
services: 42.2% (2013 est.)

Labor force - by occupation: 

agriculture: 85%
industry: 5%
services: 10% (2009 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

8.4% (2013 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% (2013 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 :

UN_Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and other national surveys; United Nations Population Division
CIA The World Factbook

Update date: August 2014