One in every 33 babies born in the world today is born in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has about 4,000,000 births a year, around 3.0% of all births worldwide.
- Births per year
- 4,000,000
- Share of world births
- 3.0%
- Birth odds
- 1/33
- Life expectancy
- 66 years
- Risk of dying before age 5
- 4.7%
- Income per person, PPP
- $3,000
- Children per woman
- 4.1
- Urban population
- 23%
Life expectancy in Ethiopia is 66 years, which is 7 years shorter than the world average.
Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 47 do not reach their fifth birthday. That is 1.3 times the world average.
Income per person is about $3,000 in purchasing power. That is only 13% of the world average.
On average a woman has 4.1 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.
About 23% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 77% chance of being born in the countryside.
Religious makeup
- Christianity67%
- Islam31%
- Folk beliefs2%
Sample names given to people born in this country in the game
Baraka · Juma · Abebe · Musa · Amani · Neema · Tigist · Zawadi
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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.