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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น

Ethiopia

#18 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Abiy Ahmed

โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
333.3:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, Ethiopia spends $333 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
56.0
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +29.0 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$3.1K
Median income: $1.1K
World Bank PPP 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$1B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$3M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.30% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$47M/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$37

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$1B
0.8% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 (estimated) โ†—
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$37
WHO 2022
โณ
Life Expectancy
66.6 yrs
World Bank 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
333:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
21.3:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$47M
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
WHO: US$46.61M health R&D (0.06% of GDP); one of three low-income countries meeting target โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$3M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $47M medical research budget โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$0
SIPRI 2023 โ€” no significant arms exports
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
40% of GDP
IMF 2024

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’€
Body Count
873,000
1941โ€“1987
Summed from 2 sourced government death ledger entries โ†—
โ˜ข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
0
FAS
๐Ÿชฆ
Civilian Deaths
500,000
Tigray war civilian estimates: 300K-600K per Ghent University study
๐Ÿ’ฅ
Countries Bombed
2
Conflict databases
๐Ÿƒ
Refugees Created
4,200,000
UNHCR โ€” Tigray + Amhara displaced โ†—

๐Ÿ’ฅ Countries Bombed

Eritrea, Somalia (intervention)

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Derg communist regime democide
Rummel midpoint estimate for the Ethiopian communist regime.
Period
1974โ€“1987
Deaths
725,000
rummel-midpoint
Haile Selassie monarchy democide
Rummel midpoint estimate for the Ethiopian monarchy.
Period
1941โ€“1974
Deaths
148,000
rummel-midpoint

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
7.6
UNODC 2022
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
108
World Prison Brief 2024 โ†—

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Ethiopia Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix Ethiopia's Score

Ethiopia spends $1B/yr on military and $3M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

Ethiopia Government Scorecard | The Earth Optimization Game