Cushitic dialects, Tigre, Nora Bana, Arabic Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1984) total population: 98% male: 98% female: 99% Labor force: 6.2 million (1992 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2%-3% (1991 est.) Budget: revenues $209 million; expenditures $14.3 million, including capital expenditures of $23.9 million (1989) Industrial production: growth rate 8.0% (1992 est.); accounts for about 45% of GDP, 22% of labor force; principal crops
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