COUNTRY PROFILE / ETHIOPIA

Continent: Africa

Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Nature of regime: Parliamentary

Head of State (honorary position): Ms. SAHLE-WORK ZEWDE

Prime Minister (head of executive): Mr. ABIY Ahmed Ali (since April 2, 2018)

Area: 1,219,912 km²

Currency: Ethiopian birr; 1 EUR = 46.6 ETB (December 2020)

Population (2022): 115 million inhabitants

Capital: Addis Ababa

Main cities: Addis Ababa, Debre Zeit, Nazareth…

Official languages: Amharic, English

Agreements and Conventions

• Agreement on the abolition of visas for holders of diplomatic or service passports;
• General Agreement on Cooperation and Strengthening of Friendly Relations between Cote d’Ivoire and Ethiopia in the economic, diplomatic, commercial, technical and social fields;
• Agreement on Technical Cooperation in the Field of Health;
• Air transport agreement signed and revisited on January 18, 2018;
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Agricultural Research Institute (EIAR) of Ethiopia and the National Center for Agricultural Research (CNRA) of Cote d’Ivoire;
• A decree ratifying and publishing the Air Transport Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, signed on October 27, 2017 in Abidjan.

A. Main Exports of Cote d’Ivoire to Ethiopia: essential oils and vegetables, processed wood.

B. Main imports of Ethiopia to Cote d’Ivoire : clothing, plastics, miscellaneous products, ceramics-glass-stone and electrical machinery.

Sources : DGE-DPPSE

Sources : (General Directorate of Economy) DGE-DPCEI (Department of Promotion and International Economic Cooperation)

• The value of bilateral trade reached CFAF 1.1 billion in 2022, compared to 1.300 billion of CFAF in 2021;
• Over the period 2018-2022, the average value of Ivorian exports amounted to 120 million of CFA francs/year against 1.660 billion of CFA francs/year for imports;
• the trade balance is in surplus over the whole period for Ethiopia.