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Eritrea: Statistics

People [1]

People

Population 3,684,032 (2022)
Population Growth Rate 1.745 annual % (2022)
Age Dependency Ratio 76.087 % of working-age population (2022)
Urban Population 42.625 % of total (2022)
Infant Mortality Rate 28.9 per 1,000 live births (2021)
Life Expectancy at Birth 66.536 years (2021)

Age Distribution - % of Total Population (2022)

Energy [2]

Electricity

Ranking
Production 0.45 billion kWh (2021) #167
Consumption 0.4 billion kWh (2021) #169
Exports 0 billion kWh (2021) #96
Imports 0 billion kWh (2021) #118
Renewable Electricity Generation 0.02 billion kWh (2021) #164

Oil

Ranking
Production 0 thousand bbl/day (2021) #119
Consumption 5.24 thousand bbl/day (2021) #166
Exports (Refined) [3] 0 thousand bbl/day (2013) #87
Imports (Refined) [3] 0 thousand bbl/day (2013) #85
Proved Reserves (Crude) 0 billion bbl (2021) #100

Natural Gas

Ranking
Production (Gross) 0 billion cu ft (2015) #97
Consumption (Dry) 0 billion cu ft (2021) #122
Exports (Dry) 0 billion cu ft (2021) #57
Imports (Dry) 0 billion cu ft (2021) #86
Proved Reserves 0 trillion cu ft (2021) #100

Other [3]

Technology

Airports 13 (2013)
Cellular Telephones 506,000 (2018 est.)
Highways 16,000 km (2018)
Internet Users 69,095 (2016 est.)
Railways 306 km (2018)
Telephones 66,068 (2018 est.)

Geography & Environment

LocationEastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan
Total Area117,600 sq. km
Land Area101,000 sq. km
Water Area16,600 sq. km
Coastline2,234 km
Climatehot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands
Terraindominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains
Lowest Pointnear Kulul within the Danakil Depression -75 m
Highest Point Soira 3,018 m

Sources

  1. The World Bank Date Accessed: 9/11/2023
  2. U.S. Energy Information Administration
  3. CIA World Factbook Date Accessed: 5/9/2020