- Capital: Addis Ababa
- POPULATION: 74.778 Million
- LANGUAGES: Amharic, Tigrinya, Other
- Median age: 18
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 37.98
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 14.86
- Life expectancy: 49.03
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 42.7%
  male: 50.3%
  female: 35.1% (2003 est.)
- Independence: oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world - at least 2,000 years
- GDP per capita: $800

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