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If you were born in Eritrea today
About 1 in 797 babies born in the world right now is born in Eritrea (0.13%). This is what that life starts with — and you can live one, to the very end.
Life expectancy at birth66.3years · world 69.3
Children who die before five47per 1,000 births · world 48
Income per person$1,888a year, at local prices · world $13,616
Expected years of school5.4years · world 12.0
Life satisfaction4.5out of 10 · world 4.8
Live in cities45%world 52%
Mothers who die giving birth480per 100,000 births · world 239
Girls married before 1841%world 22%
- Out of every 1,000 babies born here, about 47 will not live to see their fifth birthday.
- A life here lasts 66.3 years on average — 3.0 years shorter than the world's 69.3.
- Income per person is about $1,888 a year at local prices, 0.14 times the world's.
Be born — maybe hereWhere you are born is drawn by real birth odds: today, 0.13% of the time it is Eritrea.
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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, UN IGME, World Bank, UNDP, World Happiness Report, WHO, UNICEF. Some small territories use regional estimates.