Eritrea
Eritrea in numbers — 17 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Eritrea recorded GDP per capita: 689 (2011), ranking 204 of 212 worldwide; Population: 3.61 million (2025), ranking 131 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 68.9 (2024), ranking 162 of 217 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+333%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-80%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 5 of 17 comparable series are higher and 12 are lower.
Its population of 3.61 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
11 of 17 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 6 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 3,607,003 | 2025 | +270.9% |
| Population growth | 2% | 2025 | -14.6% |
| Urban population | 34.54% | 2025 | +232.1% |
| Life expectancy | 68.89 | 2024 | +84.0% |
| Infant mortality | 24.7 | 2024 | -79.6% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.22 | 2024 | -19.9% |
| Labor participation | 78.35% | 2025 | -3.3% |
| Unemployment | 5.98% | 2025 | +16.6% |
| Electricity access | 55.3% | 2024 | +141.5% |
| Forest area | 8.63% | 2023 | -23.6% |
| Health spending | 3.68% | 2023 | -36.1% |
| Internet users | 14.35% | 2020 | — |
| GDP | 2,065,001,626.02 | 2011 | +332.8% |
| GDP (PPP) | 5,224,331,270.25 | 2011 | +184.6% |
| GDP per capita | 688.68 | 2011 | +159.6% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 1,742.32 | 2011 | +70.7% |
| GDP growth | 8.68% | 2011 | -35.5% |