Ethiopia
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.
Ethiopia is filled. The 8 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.
The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. One of them is smaller than this map can draw and is marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is its position, not its size or shape.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 9.1°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 31.6°E–49.3°E, 2.4°N–15.9°N.
Disputed areas involving Ethiopia
One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.
Somaliland · Disputed
Self admin.; Claimed by Somalia
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
2 sources from Ethiopiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- Capital Ethiopia
- Ethiopian Monitor
sources not yet assessed
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
Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)
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 Addis Ababa
20°C / 69°FMainly clearwind 14 km/h / 9 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Addis Ababa, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:14 AM · sunset 6:22 PM12h 08m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- ETHuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 220 Vuncited
- Capital
- Addis Ababauncited
- Official language
- Amhariccited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type E, Type F (Schuko), Type J (SN 441011), Type Lcited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- No source assessed yet
Population and economy
Population
Population of Ethiopia: the UN's 2025 estimate is 135,472,051 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 6.5 more a minute. 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
- 135,472,051 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 132,059,767 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 6.5 more a minute (3,414,551 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
- 135,472,0512025
- GDP
- 126,358,758,4482025
- GDP per capita
- 9332025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 67.6 years2024
- Exports
- 13.3%2025
- Imports
- 20.2%2025
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
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in English and Welsh.
World Heritage Sites
12 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Monolithic churches in Lalibela · inscribed 1978
- Simien Mountains National Park · inscribed 1978
- Fasil Ghebbi · inscribed 1979
- Lower Valley of the Awash · inscribed 1980
- Tiya archaeological site · inscribed 1980
- Ruins of Aksum · inscribed 1980
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Omo River · inscribed 1980
- Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town · inscribed 2006
- Konso Cultural Landscape · inscribed 2011
- Bale Mountains National Park · inscribed 2023
- The Gedeo Cultural Landscape · inscribed 2023
- Melka Kunture · inscribed 2024
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 907listed as: emergency medical services
- 911
- 939listed as: fire department
- 991listed as: police
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
- Addis Ababa
- Āfar
- Amhara
- Bīnshangul Gumuz
- Central Ethiopia Regional State
- Dire Dawa
- Gambela
- Harari
- Oromiya
- Sidama Region
- Somali
- South Ethiopia Regional State
- South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region
- Tigray
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
ETB
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.