Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa is a region. It is located in Africa. It comprises 17 countries for a land area of 6,202,960 km² and a population of 475,162,334 people.
Key facts
- continent: Africa
- number of countries: 17
- land area: 6,202,960 km²
- population: 475,162,334 people
- central government debt:
57.04 % of GDP
- expense:
19.20 % of GDP
- GDP:
563,844,020,250.26 current US$
- self-employed workers:
67.41 % of total employment
- tax revenue:
13.44 % of GDP
- unemployment:
7.12 % of total labor force
- vulnerable employment:
63.80 % of total employment
- armed forces personnel:
649,000 people
- democracy score:
65.25
- internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence:
7,371,700 people
- individuals using the Internet:
34.48 % of population
- military expenditure:
2.60 % of GDP
- net migration:
-297,591 people
- press freedom:
35.27
- proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments:
28.87 %
- birth rate:
29.62 per 1,000 people
- death rate:
7.66 per 1,000 people
- health expenditure per capita:
126.79 current US$
- health expenditure:
5.41 % of GDP
- incidence of HIV:
0.77 per 1,000 uninfected population
- hospital beds:
1.35 per 1,000 people
- life expectancy at birth:
64.41
- suicide mortality rate:
7.62 per 100,000 population
- agricultural land:
3,063,919.42 km²
- alternative and nuclear energy:
3.39 % of total energy use
- carbon dioxide emissions (CO2):
115.67 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- access to electricity:
54.42 % of population
- electricity production from coal sources:
10.78 % of total
- electricity production from natural gas sources:
7.09 % of total
- electricity production from hydroelectric sources:
50.54 % of total
- electricity production from nuclear sources:
0.00 % of total
- electricity production from oil sources:
22.01 % of total
- electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric:
9.59 % of total
- net energy imports:
13.70 % of energy use
- fertility rate:
3.85 births per woman
- forest area:
1,877,580 km²
- fossil fuel energy consumption:
18.03 % of total
- greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6):
633.40 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- median age:
16.35
- methane emissions:
395.52 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- nitrous oxide emissions:
118.97 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- female population:
239,527,790 people
- male population:
235,634,544 people
- renewable energy consumption:
66.56 % of total final energy consumption
- rural land area:
6,197,624.57 km²
- rural population:
330,050,673 people
- urban land area:
32,652.25 km²
- urban population:
145,111,661 people
- urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters :
2.74 % of total population
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Evolution of historical access to electricity in Eastern Africa
Evolution of historical rural population in Eastern Africa
Evolution of historical population in Eastern Africa
Evolution of historical median age in Eastern Africa
Map of the density of countries in Eastern Africa
Map of the distribution of cities in Eastern Africa by population
Correlation of agricultural land and nitrous oxide emissions by countries yearly in Eastern Africa
Correlation of methane emissions and urban population by countries yearly in Eastern Africa
Correlation of methane emissions and population by countries yearly in Eastern Africa
Correlation of urban land area and armed forces personnel by countries yearly in Eastern Africa
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This dashboard is based on data from: World Bank.
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