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Aliases: Eritrea Autonomous Region in Ethiopia, Ertra, Hagere Ertra, State of Eritrea

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Geography
Area 117,600 km²
Continent Africa
Land area 101,000 km²
Water area 16,600 km²
Land boundaries 1,840 km
Border countries
  • Djibouti
  • Ethiopia
  • Sudan
Coastline 2,234 km
Mean elevation 853 m
Lowest point -75 m
Highest point 3,018 m
People
Population 6,081,196
Official languages
  • Arabic
  • English
  • Tigrinya
Religion Sunni Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant
Government
Long country name State of Eritrea
Short country name Eritrea
Long local name Hagere Ertra
Short local name Ertra
Former name
  • Eritrea Autonomous Region in Ethiopia
Government type Presidential republic
Capital Asmara
Economy
GDP (PPP) 9,402,000,000 USD
GDP (OER) 5,813,000,000 USD
GDP (real growth rate) 5 %
GDP - per capita (PPP) 1,600 USD
Gross national saving 5.5 % of GDP
Labor force 2,710,000
Unemployment rate 5.8 %
Population below poverty line 50 %
Budget revenues 2,029,000,000 USD
Budget expenditures 2,601,000,000 USD
Military expenditures Add
Taxes and other revenues 34.9 % of GDP
Budget surplus or deficit -9.8 % of GDP
Public debt 131.2 % of GDP
Inflation rate 9 %
Central bank discount rate Add
Commercial bank prime lending rate Add
Stock of narrow money 3,084,000,000 USD
Stock of broad money 3,084,000,000 USD
Stock of domestic credit 5,787,000,000 USD
Market value of publicly traded shares Add
Current account balance -137,000,000 USD
Exports 624,300,000 USD
Imports 1,127,000,000 USD
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 236,700,000 USD
External debt 792,700,000 USD
National currency nakfa
National currency (code) ERN
National currency (symbol) Add
National currency rate to USD 15.38

After independence from Italian colonial control in 1941 and 10 years of British administrative control, the UN established Eritrea as an autonomous region within the Ethiopian federation in 1952. Ethiopia's full annexation of Eritrea as a province 10 years later sparked a violent 30-year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating government forces. Eritreans overwhelmingly approved independence in a 1993 referendum. ISAIAS Afwerki has been Eritrea's only president since independence; his rule, particularly since 2001, has been highly autocratic and repressive. His government has created a highly militarized society by pursuing an unpopular program of mandatory conscription into national service – divided between military and civilian service – of indefinite length. A two-and-a-half-year border war with Ethiopia that erupted in 1998 ended under UN auspices in December 2000. A UN peacekeeping operation was established that monitored a 25 km-wide Temporary Security Zone. The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) created in April 2003 was tasked "to delimit and demarcate the colonial treaty border based on pertinent colonial treaties (1900, 1902, and 1908) and applicable international law." The EEBC on 30 November 2007 remotely demarcated the border, assigning the town of Badme to Eritrea, despite Ethiopia's maintaining forces there from the time of the 1998-2000 war. Eritrea insisted that the UN terminate its peacekeeping mission on 31 July 2008. More than a decade of a tense “no peace, no war” stalemate ended in 2018 after the newly elected Ethiopian Prime Minister accepted the EEBC’s 2007 ruling, and the two countries signed declarations of peace and friendship in July and September. Following the July 2018 peace agreement with Ethiopia, Eritrean leaders engaged in intensive diplomacy around the Horn of Africa, bolstering regional peace, security, and cooperation, as well as brokering rapprochements between governments and opposition groups. In November 2018, the UN Security Council lifted an arms embargo that had been imposed on Eritrea since 2009, after the UN Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group reported they had not found evidence of Eritrean support in recent years for Al-Shabaab.

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