Distillers Country guides / Djibouti
Djibouti
A one-page guide to Djibouti for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Djibouti City
- Official languages
- Arabic, French
- Currency
- Djiboutian franc (DJF)
- Time zone
- UTC+3
- Area
- 23,200 km²
People
- Population
- 1.2 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 1.3% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 73.0%
- Aged under 15
- 28.8%
- Aged 65 and over
- 5.0%
- Life expectancy
- 66.2 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$4.6 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$3,906 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 6.5% (2025)
- Inflation
- -0.31% (2025)
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 0.38 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 20%, wine 12%, spirits 68% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Djibouti; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.