Eritrea
ኤርትራ
Waiting for the first voice
تا مرد سخن نگفته باشد / عیب و هنرش نهفته باشد
Until a man has spoken, his faults and his gifts both stay hidden.
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Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 4.3%
- people aged 65 or older
- 153.6K
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 5.8%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 16 years
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023
Languages
14 languages, 4 of them endangered
- QimantSeverely endangered
- DahalikDefinitely endangered
- BlinVulnerable
- NaraVulnerable
- Adamaua-Fulfulde
- Afar
- Beja
- Kunama
- Saho
- Standard Arabic
- Sudanese Arabic
- Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic
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- Tigre
- Tigrinya
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
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