Ethiopia

Major Diseases

Degree of risk: high.

• Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever.
• Vector borne diseases: malaria.
• Respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis.
• Animal contact disease: rabies.
• Water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2009).
• 6.4 million People are critically affected by; malnutrition, Acute Watery Diarrhea, floods, poor access to health care services and critical water and sanitation shortage(UNICEF).

Current Environmental Issue

deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; water shortages in some areas from water-intensive farming and poor management.

Education

• Literacy rate 42.7%
• Public education is compulsory and free at the primary level
• 31% of primary-school-age children were enrolled in school (Encyclopedia of Nations)
• One of the lowest primary education enrolment rates in the world (WFP)

• The World Food Program estimates 38% of children under the age of five are underweight. Additionally, 46% of the country’s population is undernourished.
• 4.6 million People are in urgent need of food assistance (WFP).
• 5.7 million people are affected by drought every year(UNICEF).

Threats to food security

• Frequent drought.
• Deforestation.
• Soil Erosion.
• Floods.
• Poverty.
• Declining world prices of cash crops.

Economics

• GDP: $13.3 billions.
• 23% of population lives under $1/day.