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Ethiopia Facts
On Agriculture…
- Agriculture contributes to about half of Ethiopia's total goods and services. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001)
- For every 1,000 people in Ethiopia, an estimated 180 hectares of land are used for crops- significantly less than the average for sub-Saharan Africa, which is 288 hectares. (World Resources Institute, Earth Trends, 2001)
- Ethiopia has faced drought 15 times since 1965. (World Food Programme)
- At least eight out of every ten workers in Ethiopia are involved in agricultural activities. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001)
On Poverty…
- Thirty-one percent of people in Ethiopia live on less than US$1 per day; 76 percent live on less than US$2 per day. (United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Indicators, 2002)
- On average, Ethiopians have an income of US$100 per year. (World Bank, World Development Report, 2003)
On Health…
- Only 24 percent of Ethiopians have access to safe drinking water. (UNDP, Human Development Indicators, 2002)
- Forty-seven percent of Ethiopia's children under the age of five are malnourished. (UNDP, Human Development Indicators, 2002)
- For every 1,000 babies born in Ethiopia, 174 will die before their fifth birthday. (Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations, 2002)
- An estimated 2.1 million people in Ethiopia are infected with HIV/AIDS, including 6.4 percent of the adult population. There are an estimated 990,000 AIDS orphans living in the country. (UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance, 2002)
On Demographics…
- Ethiopia's population is expected to increase from 67 million to 100 million in less than 20 years. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001)
- Approximately 85 percent of Ethiopians live in rural areas. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001)
- Sixty-nine percent of Ethiopian women, and 53 percent of men, are illiterate, compared to averages in sub-Saharan Africa of 47 and 30 percent, respectively. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2002)
- Ethiopia has a population density of 66 people per square kilometer. (World Bank, World Development Report, 2003)
On Rural Development…
- Only 12 percent of roads are paved in Ethiopia, which has one of the world's lowest road densities. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2002)
- By current estimates, there are only 3,000 tractors and 100 harvesters/threshers in use in all of Ethiopia. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2000)
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