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Ethiopia

Ethiopia's best placing is 10th of 195 for population.

Best placing: #10Population
Top 10 placings: 1 / 16
Population: 135.5 million
Land area: 1,128,499 km²

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Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Ethiopia is.

Population

#10 of 195

135,472,051 people

2nd in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Land area

#25 of 194

1,128,499 km² of land

10th in Africa · World Bank · 2023

Forest

#40 of 194

168,495 km² of forest

14th in Africa · World Bank · 2023

GDP

#64 of 182

126,358,758,448 US$ (current prices)

7th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Population by area

#75 of 194

120.05 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

Airports

#78 of 193

58 airports

16th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Rainfall

#101 of 179

848 mm of precipitation per year

30th in Africa · World Bank · 2022

Land area per person

#120 of 194

0.008 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Forest by area

#131 of 194

14.9 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Forest per person

#132 of 194

0.0012 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Railways

#104 of 135

659 km of railway

26th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2017

Airports by area

#179 of 191

0.51 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

GDP per person

#171 of 182

933 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#183 of 192

0.43 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways by area

#127 of 133

0.58 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2017

Railways per person

#130 of 134

4.86 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2017

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