International Rankings of Eritrea 2023, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Eritrea, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Eritrea, 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	60	0.10	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	182	5000	2020
Internet users - percent of population	101	22.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	154	792000	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	57	2.00	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	142	66000	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	94	50.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	154	1.800 million	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	185	549.000 million US Dollars	2018
Budget - revenues	182	633.000 million US Dollars	2018
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	102	9.80 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	94	137.000 million US Dollars	2017
Debt - external	172	792.700 million US Dollars	2017
Exchange rates	89	15.08	N/A
Exports	187	624.300 million US Dollars	2017
GDP (official exchange rate)	160	5.813 billion US Dollars	2017
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	173	10.90 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	30	24.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	34	80.90 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	26	22.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	141	6.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	55	0.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	72	11.70 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	67	29.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	109	58.70 % of GDP	2017
Imports	185	1.127 billion US Dollars	2017
Industrial production growth rate	80	5.40 %	2017
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	29	9.00 %	2017
Labor force	133	1.675 million US Dollars	2021
Labor force - by occupation - agriculture	7	80 %	N/A
Labor force - by occupation - industry	70	20 %	2004
Population below poverty line	20	50 %	2004
Public debt	9	131.20 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	164	9.702 billion US Dollars	2017
Real GDP growth rate	87	5.00 %	2017
Real GDP per capita	170	1600 US Dollars	2017
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	183	191.694 million US Dollars	2019
Taxes and other revenues	19	34.90 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	88	8.05 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	93	16.40	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	100	13.10	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	95	14.60	N/A
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	178	798000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	179	798000	2019
Electricity - consumption	175	394.460 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	165	228000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	166	61.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	32	93.80 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	24	5.70 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - wind	68	0.50 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	181	3.217 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	170	5200 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	180	3897 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	156	1 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	126	4 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	23	42 micrograms per cubic meter	2016
Land use - agricultural land	11	75	2018
Land use - arable land	112	7	2018
Land use - forest	131	15	2018
Land use - other	160	10	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	9	68	2018
Total renewable water resources	144	7.320 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	98	550.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	102	1.000 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - municipal	110	30.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	24	3.67	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	134	43	2023
Geography
Area - land	105	101000 sq km	N/A
Area - total	103	117600 sq km	N/A
Area - water	35	16600 sq km	N/A
Coastline	60	2234 km	1083
Elevation - highest point	52	3018 meters	N/A
Elevation - lowest point	49	75 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	38	853 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	129	210 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	94	1840 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	11	75	2018
Land use - arable land	112	7	2018
Land use - forest	131	15	2018
Land use - other	160	10	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	9	68	2018
Population Density	152	62.13 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	3	10 % of GDP	2019
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - other alcohols	31	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	140	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	40	26.72 births/1,000 population	2023
Current health expenditure	75	4 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	108	52 %	2023
Death rate	118	6.60 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	126	7.10 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	47	14.00 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	29	77.90 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	31	70.80 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	64	73 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	8	47 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	3	42 % of population	2015
Drinking water source - unimproved	1	27 % of population	N/A
Gross reproduction rate	29	1.73 %	2023
Hospital bed density	64	0.70 beds/1,000 population	2011
Infant mortality rate - female	33	33.62 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Infant mortality rate - male	27	47.45 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	30	40.63 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - female	168	70 years	2023
Life expectancy at birth - male	181	65 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	174	67 years	N/A
Literacy - female	89	69 %	2018
Literacy - male	63	84 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	76	77 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	28	322.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	141	21 years	2020
Median age - male	136	20 years	N/A
Median age - total	135	20 years	N/A
Mother's mean age at first birth	64	21	2010
Net migration rate	189	9.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	136	5.00 %	2016
Physicians density	153	0.08 physicians/1,000 population	2020
Population	111	6.275 million	2023
Population growth rate	73	1.08 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	94	45 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	2	93 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	1	84 % of population	2017
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	1	56 % of population	N/A
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - female	16	7 years	2015
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - male	13	8 years	N/A
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - total	14	8 years	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	15	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	26	0.97 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	47	0.66 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	10	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	22	0.97 male(s)/female	N/A
Tobacco use - male	118	15 %	2020
Tobacco use - total	118	8 %	2020
Total fertility rate	35	3.50 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	24	3.67	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	134	43	2023
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	93	16.40	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	100	13.10	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	95	14.60	N/A
Transportation
Airports	112	13	2021
Airports - with unpaved runways	90	9	N/A
Heliports	25	1	2021
Merchant marine - total	134	9	N/A
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	142	102729	2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	101	1.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	27	1	2020
Roadways - paved	118	1600 km	2000
Roadways - total	104	16000 km	2018

*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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