🇪🇷 Eritrea
State of Eritrea
Every statistic we track for Eritrea — 67 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
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All indicators
📈 Economy
| Exchange Rate (per US$) | 15.1 | #89/197 | 2024 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #103/237 | 2023 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 0.3% | #179/184 | 2019 |
| Income per Person | 579.9 | #181/183 | 2018 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.7 | #36/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 19.5 | #203/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 5.8 | #111/229 | 2013 |
| Population Density | 30.4 | #185/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 554,891 | #10/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 34.5% | #182/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 55.3% | #191/214 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 59.1 | #191/209 | 2022 |
🫀 Health
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.2 | #179/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 292 | #143/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 29 | #173/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 11.1% | #146/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
| Civil Liberties (V-Dem) | 0 | #177/179 | 2025 |
| Clean Elections (V-Dem) | 0 | #172/179 | 2025 |
| Control of Corruption (QoG) | -1.6 | #189/192 | 2024 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | 13 | #173/179 | 2024 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index (QoG) | 13 | #171/177 | 2024 |
| Deliberative Democracy (V-Dem) | 0 | #174/179 | 2025 |
| Egalitarian Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.1 | #158/179 | 2025 |
| Electoral Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.1 | #177/179 | 2025 |
| Freedom House Status (QoG) | 3 | #20/193 | 2024 |
| Freedom in the World Score | 3 | #192/196 | 2024 |
| Freedom of Expression (V-Dem) | 0 | #176/179 | 2025 |
| Gender Equality (V-Dem) | 0.2 | #178/179 | 2025 |
| Government Effectiveness (QoG) | -1.5 | #183/192 | 2024 |
| Judicial Constraints on Executive (V-Dem) | 0 | #169/179 | 2025 |
| Liberal Democracy (V-Dem) | 0 | #179/179 | 2025 |
| Participatory Democracy (V-Dem) | 0 | #179/179 | 2025 |
| Political Corruption (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #48/179 | 2025 |
| Press Freedom (RSF) (QoG) | 16.6 | #173/173 | 2024 |
| Rule of Law (V-Dem) | 0.1 | #170/179 | 2025 |
| Voice & Accountability (QoG) | -2.3 | #192/192 | 2024 |
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 10.2 | #177/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Global Peace Index | 2.5 | #30/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 27.2 | #14/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 17.7 | #54/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.8 | #79/193 | 2026 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.8 | #64/191 | 2025 |
| World Risk Index | 6.2 | #76/193 | 2026 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #178/193 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.