Feb
20
Adoption Journey – Day 30
I have been reading a lot of blogs about Ethiopia these days and one, Ferenge Addis Blog, had some interesting facts about Ethiopia in a recent post. I decided I’d post some of them, with the Canadian equivalents where I could find them, so if you’re interested, you can learn a few things about the country Mystery Baby will come from.
- Population: 74 million (Canada: 33 million)
- Population below poverty line (US$0.50 per day): 50%
- Number of native languages spoken: 88 (Canada: 2 official)
- Currency: Ethiopian Birr (=US$0.113)
- Religion (percentages vary wildly by study): 51% Orthodox Christian, 33% Muslim, 10% Protestant
- Life expectancy: 41 years (80.22 years in Canada)
- Average annual income: $110 (Canada $30,000)
- Child malnutrition: 48%
- Completed primary school: 2.6% (Canada: 97%)
- Literacy rate: 42.7% (Canada: 97%)
- Births per female: 5.4 (Canada: 1.61)
- Child mortality: 123 per 1,000 (Canada: 6.9 per 1,000)
- Infant mortality: 77 per 1,000 live births (Canada: 4.69 per 1,000)
- Maternal mortality: 673 per 100,000 live births (Canada: 3.8 per 100,000)
- Women who receive pre-natal medical care: less than 1%
- Births taking place at a health facility with trained staff: 6% (Canada: 98%)
- Number of cell phones: 410,600 (Canada: 16.6 million)
- Number of television stations: 1 (Canada: 80)
- Number of internet service providers: 1 (Canada: unknown, but a lot)
Many thanks to Ferenge Addis Blog for providing all the facts and figures as we learn more about the land of Mystery Baby’s birth. And for giving us something to think about.
