01. March 2022
Looking back and ahead
Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Of the total of 169 states which are assessed with regard to their wealth and the population's living conditions in the so-called Human Development Index, Ethiopia ranks 157. According to estimates, one in two Ethiopians suffers from undernutrition. A high crime rate, prostitution due to poverty and as a consequence thereof a high rate of HIV infections are further sad characteristics of the East African state.