Eritrea
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Eritrea is filled. The 5 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Eritrea. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 15.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 35.8°E–43.7°E, 11.9°N–18.5°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Eritrea. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.
Official alerts
no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.
National legislature
no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Asmara
24°C / 75°FPartly cloudywind 20 km/h / 12 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Asmara, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:13 AM · sunset 6:22 PM12h 09m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- ERIuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Asmaracited
- Official languages
- Arabic, English, Tigrinyacited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type Lcited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- We searched for one and found none. Searched, and Eritrea appears to operate no general government web portal. The prominent shabait.com is the Ministry of Information's news outlet — state media, already ruled here as such — and no whole-of-government site was located in any namespace. Recorded 2026-08-07.Not the government’s: shabait.com — State media (Ministry of Information), repeatedly mistaken for a portal.
- State news outlet
- shabait.com ↗Not a government portal.
Population and economy
Population
Population of Eritrea: the UN's 2025 estimate is 3,607,003 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 8.2 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 3,607,003 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 3,535,603 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 8.2 more an hour (71,447 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 3,607,0032025
- GDP
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- GDP per capita
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- Life expectancy at birth
- 68.9 years2024
- Exports
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- Imports
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
World Heritage Sites
1 World Heritage Site
- Asmara: A Modernist African City · inscribed 2017
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 113listed as: police
- 114listed as: emergency medical services
- 116listed as: fire department
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
ERN
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.