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President: Sahle-Work Zewde
Prime Minister: Abiy Ahmed Ali
Capital city: Addis Ababa
Languages: Oromo (official working language in the State of Oromiya) 33.8%, Amharic (official national language) 29.3%, Somali (official working language of the State of Sumale) 6.2%, Tigrigna (Tigrinya) (official working language of the State of Tigray) 5.9%, Sidamo 4%, Wolaytta 2.2%, Gurage 2%, Afar (official working language of the State of Afar) 1.7%, Hadiyya 1.7%, Gamo 1.5%, Gedeo 1.3%, Opuuo 1.2%, Kafa 1.1%, other 8.1%, English (major foreign language taught in schools), Arabic (2007 est.)
Population, persons: 109,224,559 (2018)
Area, sq km: 1,000,000
GDP per capita, US$: 772 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 84.4 (2018)
GINI index: 35.0 (2015)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 159
