International Rankings of Djibouti 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Djibouti, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Djibouti, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	51	3.00	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	157	25053	2020
Internet users - percent of population	49	69.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	155	759000	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	57	2.00	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	168	27931	2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	96	44.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	173	489339	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	181	754.000 million US Dollars	2019
Budget - revenues	180	725.000 million US Dollars	2019
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	99	9.00 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	102	225.106 million US Dollars	2021
Debt - external	155	1.954 billion US Dollars	2017
Exchange rates	39	177.72	N/A
Exports	131	5.160 billion US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	175	3.323 billion US Dollars	2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	91	38.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	14	29.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	126	56.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	148	66.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	10	41.80 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	53	0.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	127	2.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	134	17.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	27	80.20 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	37	42 %	2017
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	55	30.90 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2002
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	27	2.40 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	141	5.483 billion US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	177	4.43 %	2020
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	143	1.78 %	2020
Labor force	171	240500 US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	86	21 %	2017
Public debt	158	31.80 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	177	5.432 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	91	4.81 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	143	4900 US Dollars	2021
Remittances	100	2	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	164	588.418 million US Dollars	2021
Taxes and other revenues	17	35.30 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	6	28.39 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	1	82.20 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	1	78.60 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	1	79.90 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	184	610000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	185	610000	2019
Electricity - consumption	210	62.600 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	177	130000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	155	120.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas	52	37	2021
Electricity access - electrification - total population	45	65	2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas	48	73	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	11	98.20 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	51	1.80 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	157	8.869 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	175	4300 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - exports	114	403 bbl/day	2015
Refined petroleum products - imports	162	6692 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	159	1 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	166	1 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	81	20 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	15	73	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	5	73	2018
Total renewable water resources	167	300.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	136	3.000 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - municipal	111	20.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	83	1.56	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	50	79	2023
Geography
Area - land	150	23180 sq km	N/A
Area - total	153	23200 sq km	N/A
Area - water	142	20 sq km	N/A
Coastline	128	314 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	102	2021 meters	N/A
Elevation - lowest point	53	155 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	82	430 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	151	10 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	137	528 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	15	73	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	5	73	2018
Population Density	174	42.11 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	15	4 % of GDP	2019
Population
Birth rate	54	22.00 births/1,000 population	2023
Child marriage - women married by age 15	46	1	N/A
Child marriage - women married by age 18	68	7	2019
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	23	16 %	2019
Contraceptive prevalence rate	116	19.00 %	2012
Current health expenditure	91	2 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	121	51 %	2023
Death rate	57	7.10 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	128	6.90 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	44	14.40 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	116	50.60 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	67	47.50 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	4	100 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	16	41 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	46	9 % of population	2020
Education expenditures	50	4 % of GDP	2018
Gross reproduction rate	67	1.05 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	27	38.70 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	21	53.10 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	25	46.00 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	122	68 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	128	63 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	126	66 years	2023
Maternal mortality ratio	38	234.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	118	28 years	N/A
Median age - male	123	24 years	N/A
Median age - total	111	26 years	2023
Net migration rate	24	4.40 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	97	13.50 %	2016
Physicians density	140	0.22 physicians/1,000 population	2014
Population	162	976143	2023
Population growth rate	40	1.93 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	56	88 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	16	76 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	48	26 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	39	12 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	15	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	39	0.77 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	35	0.78 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	11	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	34	0.83 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	82	2.13 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	83	1.56	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	50	79	2023
Transportation
Airports	115	10	2024
Heliports	60	6	2024
Merchant marine - total	113	40	2023
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	98	4.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	26	2	2020
Railways - total	96	97 km	2017

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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