- Capital: Asmara
- POPULATION: 4.787 Million
- LANGUAGES: Afar, Arabic, Others
- Median age: 18
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 34.33
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 9.6
- Life expectancy: 59.03
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 58.6%
  male: 69.9%
  female: 47.6% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 24 may 1993 from ethiopia"
- GDP per capita: $1,100

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