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Child marriages, known to deprive women of opportunities to reach their full potential, have among women aged 20–24, 36 percent of total population. [2]The April 2020 SHDS report further unveils that fertility rates remain very high, the total fertility rate for Somalia is 6.9 children per woman, the highest in the world, which would impact planning for the next years. [2]
Somalia's population is expanding at a growth rate of 1.75% per annum and a birth rate of 40.87 births per 1,000 people. [1] The total fertility rate of Somalia is 6.08 children born per woman (2014 estimates), the fourth highest in the world, according to the CIA World Factbook . [ 1 ]
This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, ... Somalia [h] 17,801,897: 18,358,615 +3.13%: Africa: Eastern Africa
This is a list of districts in Somalia by population. As of March 2017 [update] , the country has an estimated population of 15,626,039 inhabitants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the Central Intelligence Agency , the total population count in Somalia is complicated by internal movements of nomads and individuals displaced during the civil war . [ 3 ]
Statistics Canada's 2006 census ranks people of Somali descent as the 69th largest ethnic group in Canada. [204] UN migration estimates of the international migrant stock 2015 suggest that 1,998,764 people from Somalia were living abroad. [205] [206] Somali women at a political function in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, also sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [1]
The Somali diaspora or Qurbajoogta refers to Somalis who were born in Greater Somalia and reside in areas of the world that they were not born in. The civil war in Somalia greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many Somalis moved from Greater Somalia primarily to Europe, North America, Oceania and South Africa.
The population is predominantly Somali, and there have been attempts to incorporate the area into a Greater Somalia. In the 1977, Somalia invaded Ethiopia, igniting the Ogaden War , which Somalia lost due to timely military intervention from the Soviet Union and its ally Cuba .