I found these facts on a fellow AGCIer's blog. I did ask permission to copy them. Thanks, Kelly!
*Annual per capita income is less than $160
*47% of the population lives below the poverty rate
*Average Ethiopian woman gives birth to 5.9 children
*1 in 10 children die before their first birthday
*1 in 6 children die before age 5
*Malnutrition is the cause of more than 1/2 of all child deaths
*Average life expectancy is 48 for men, 50 for women
*1 physician for every 34,988 people
*1 in 4 women dies in childbirth
*Only 50% of children attend primary school (K-3)
*Average class size in government schools – 85-100 children
*Overall literacy rate is 42%
*Estimated number of street children:100,000 nationwide
*It is Estimated that approximately 4.4% of the population in Ethiopia is infected with AIDS and that there are approximately 1 million AIDS orphans
*There are over 5 million orphans total in a country with a population of 74 million
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