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According to the 2008 National Census, 85.5% of Liberia's population practices Christianity. [17] Muslims comprise 12.2% of the population, largely coming from the Mandingo and Vai ethnic groups. [17] The vast majority of Muslims are Malikite Sunni, with sizeable Shia and Ahmadiyya minorities. [18]
A map of Liberia, showing Liberian counties and cities. Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.. This is a list of cities in Liberia: . Arthington; Barclayville; Belefuanai; Bensonville ...
The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin ...
Monrovia City Corporation: Montserrado-7: Sports Commission 3,220 785 Monrovia City Corporation: Montserrado-7: BTC Area 138 34 Monrovia City Corporation: Montserrado-7: Bassa Community 2,219 541 Monrovia City Corporation: Montserrado-8: Bernard Quarters 3,997 975 Monrovia City Corporation: Montserrado-8: Bishop Brooks 4,889 1,193 Monrovia City ...
The population of the More Developed regions is slated to remain mostly unchanged, at 1.2-1.3 billion for the remainder of the 21st century. All population growth comes from the Less Developed regions. [6] [7] The table below breaks out the UN's future population growth predictions by region [6] [7]
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
By now, it is a widely accepted view to analogize Malthusian growth in Ecology to Newton's First Law of uniform motion in physics. [8] Malthus wrote that all life forms, including humans, have a propensity to exponential population growth when resources are abundant but that actual growth is limited by available resources:
The population of Liberia was 1,016,443 in 1962 and increased to 1,503,368 in 1974. [95] As of 2006 [update] , Liberia had the highest population growth rate in the world (4.50% per annum). [ 177 ] In 2010 some 43.5% of Liberians were below the age of 15.