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Eritrea

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Eritrea is a country. The capital city is Asmara, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 121,040 km², a population of 3,470,390 people and uses the currency Eritrean nakfa. The President is Isaias Afwerki.

Key facts

currency: Eritrean nakfa
capital city: Asmara
region: Eastern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 121,040 km²
population: 3,470,390 people
political leader: Isaias Afwerki (President)

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GDP: 2,065,001,626.02 current US$
self-employed workers: 76.30 % of total employment
unemployment: 5.59 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 73.98 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 202,000 people
democracy score: 2.37
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 10,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 20.00 % of population
military expenditure: 20.87 % of GDP
net migration: -15,284 people
press freedom: 0.97
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 22.00 %
birth rate: 28.43 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.73 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 25.36 current US$
health expenditure: 4.15 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.06 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.00 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 67
suicide mortality rate: 10.90 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 75,920.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.02 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 0.67 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 55.40 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 99.51 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.49 % of total
net energy imports: 22.27 % of energy use
fertility rate: 3.79 births per woman
forest area: 10,489 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 23.13 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 6.40 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 14.70
methane emissions: 4.51 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.27 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 1,757,866 people
male population: 1,712,524 people
renewable energy consumption: 80.70 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 120,001.00 km²
rural population: 1,968,856 people
urban land area: 331.19 km²
urban population: 1,501,534 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 14.90 % of total population

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