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Liberia's Krahn were originally hunters, fishermen and farmers, traditionally focusing on rice and cassava production. Slow or failing development of regions with many Krahn settlers led many of the younger Krahn generations to migrate to areas such as Monrovia. [5]
The Kru-speaking people are a large ethnic group that is made up of several sub-ethnic groups in Liberia and Ivory Coast. In Liberia, there are 48 sub-sections of Kru tribes, including the Jlao Kru. [5] These tribes include Bété, Bassa, Krumen, Guéré, Grebo, Klao/Krao, Dida, Krahn people and Jabo people.
Krahn people (15 P) Kru people (5 C, 4 P) M. Mandinka (4 C, 17 P) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Liberia" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of ...
A 2001 estimate of the number of Grebo people in Liberia is approximately 387,000. [1] There are an estimated 48,300 Grebo in Côte d'Ivoire, not counting refugees. [ 2 ] Precise numbers are lacking, since many have been displaced by the civil war in Liberia of the late 20th and early 21st century.
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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.
Since 1847, Liberia operated as an independent nation with a constitutional system modeled on that of the United States. [3] For a long portion of its history, its government was dominated by Americo-Liberians, a group of free people of color and freed slaves from the United States and their descendants who first established Liberia in 1822 as a colony of the American Colonization Society, a ...
Liberian Americans are actively involved in lobbying the federal government, supporting freedom and democracy in Liberia. They also have organizations that support various issues affecting Liberia, such as humanitarian assistance, wildlife and nature preservation, and women's rights. [6]