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Ethiopia

135,472,051

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+3.41M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+101.0%from 67.41M
Life expectancy67.6 years2024
Fertility rate3.91births per woman · 2024
Urban population24.1%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Ethiopia is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1438.8%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6457.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate31.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+25.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+24.05Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Ethiopia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 225.02M in 2050—70.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024132.06M
  2. 2050225.02M
  3. 2100367.29M
Median age in 205024.6years
Births in 20504.79Mduring the year
Deaths in 20501.18Mduring the year
Life expectancy73.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196021.38M
  2. 197027.83M
  3. 198034.43M
  4. 199047.61M
  5. 200067.41M
  6. 201090.54M
  7. 2020118.92M
  8. 2025135.47M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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