{"id":219726,"date":"2018-05-05T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219726"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:35:01","slug":"25-poorest-countries-in-the-world-ethiopia-is-no-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219726","title":{"rendered":"25 poorest countries in the world: Ethiopia is No. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is terribly aggravating to hear the persistent falsehood by the Ethiopian government and its foreign sponsors about how fast Ethiopia’s economy has been growing over the past 20 years. The numbers tell a different story: Ethiopia, a country that is endowed with enormous natural resources, remains the 15th poorest country in the world, according to BusinessInsider.com. Ethiopia’s extreme poverty is entirely due to bad governance and obscene corruption on the part of government officials. Here is Business Insider’s list<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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\nThis Ethiopian child and over one hundred thousand other Ethiopians in Addis Ababa survive by scavenging the city’s trash dump while the corrupt government officials own million-dollar homes in Ethiopia, Europe, the U.S. and other parts of the world. <\/p>\n

25 Poorest Countries of the World<\/strong><\/p>\n

25. Tanzania \u2014 GDP per capita: $2,054 (\u00a31,430)
\n24. Afghanistan \u2014 GDP per capita: $2,051 (\u00a31,428)
\n23. Benin \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,957 (\u00a31,363)
\n22. Solomon Islands \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,877 (\u00a31,307)
\n21. Gambia \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,849 (\u00a31,287)
\n20. Haiti \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,846 (\u00a31,285)
\n19. Uganda \u2014 GDP per capita: \u00a31,836 (\u00a31,278)
\n18. Burkina Faso \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,824 (\u00a31,270)
\n17. Rwanda \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,782 (\u00a31,241)
\n16. Comoros \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,735 (\u00a31,208)
\n15. Ethiopia \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,656 (\u00a31,153)
\n14. Kiribati \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,640 (\u00a31,142)
\n13. Mali \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,614 (\u00a31,124)
\n12. Togo \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,525 ($1,062)
\n11. Guinea-Bissau \u2014 GDP per capita: $\t1,491 (\u00a31,038)
\n10. Madagascar \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,477 (\u00a31,028)
\n9. Guinea \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,388 (\u00a3966)
\n8. Eritrea \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,210 (\u00a3842)
\n7. Mozambique \u2014 GDP per capita: $1,208 (\u00a3841)
\n6. Niger \u2014 GDP per capita: $1069 (\u00a3744)
\n5. Burundi \u2014 GDP per capita: $951 (\u00a3662)
\n4. Liberia \u2014 GDP per capita: $934 (\u00a3652)
\n3. Malawi \u2014 GDP per capita: $819 (\u00a3572)
\n2. Democratic Republic of Congo \u2014 GDP per capita: $753 (\u00a3525)
\n1. Central African Republic \u2014 GDP per capita: $639 (\u00a3445)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is terribly aggravating to hear the persistent falsehood by the Ethiopian government and its foreign sponsors about how fast Ethiopia’s economy has been growing over the past 20 years. The numbers tell a different story: Ethiopia, a country that is endowed with enormous natural resources, remains the 15th poorest country in the world, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Map-of-poorest-countries-of-the-world.jpg?fit=1129%2C657&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-V9Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219730,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219726\/revisions\/219730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}