Background:

• Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia¹
• Location: Horn of Africa²
• Population: 109.5 million (2024 projection)³
• Capital: Addis Ababa⁴
• Official language: Amharic⁵
• National languages: five working languages (Amharic, Oromo, Somali, Afar, and Tigrinya⁶
• GDP: $163.7 billion (2023)⁷
• GNI per capita, PPP: $2,748.5 (2023)⁸

Membership of Regional Economic Communities (RECs):

• African Union (AU)
• Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) 
• African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

Additional Resources:

• Ethiopian Statistical Service 
• Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Ministry of Education

Sources:

1. Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) (1995)
2. IGAD Member State Profile (2023)
3. Ethiopian Statistics Service (2025)
4. Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) (1995)
5. Ethiopian Population Census (2007)
6. Ethiopian Population Census (2007)
7. World Bank (2023)
8. World Bank Statistics (2023)