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Youth in Mongolia constituted 18.7% of the population in 2014, numbering roughly 552,000 individuals. [3] The 15–19 age group is the largest in Mongolia; in 2009 about 40% of the population was under 19 years old. [4] Estimated population growth rates as of 2014 were reported as increasing by 1.37%. [5]
During the socialist period religion was officially banned, although it was practiced in clandestine circles. Today, a sizable proportion of Mongolic peoples are atheist or agnostic. In the most recent census in Mongolia, almost forty percent of the population reported as being atheist, while the majority religion was Tibetan Buddhism, with 53% ...
The culture of Mongolia has been shaped by the country's nomadic tradition and its position at the crossroads of various empires and civilizations. Mongolian culture is influenced by the cultures of the Mongolic , Turkic , and East Asian peoples, as well as by the country's geography and its history of political and economic interactions with ...
The various Mongolic ethnic groups share a highly similar culture and traditions, but have specific differences in clothing styles and cuisine. Although Mongolian traditional clothing has changed little since the days of the empire, there have been some changes in styles which distinguish modern Mongolian dress from historic costume. Each tribe ...
The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology.Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [13] first attested as the 'Mungu', [14] (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu [15]), a branch of ...
Mongolian as a term for race was first introduced in 1785 by Christoph Meiners, a scholar at the then modern Göttingen University. Meiners divided humanity into two races he labeled "Tartar-Caucasians" and "Mongolians", believing the former to be beautiful, the latter to be "weak in body and spirit, bad, and lacking in virtue". [8]: 34
The Mongolian diaspora refers to people of the modern country of Mongolia who live outside Mongolia. According to the Mongolian census of 2020, 122,550 Mongolian nationals were reported to be living abroad for more than six months, an increase of 14% from the last census in 2010. [ 5 ]
The total population of all countries within this region is estimated to be 1.677 billion and 21% of the world's population in 2020. [2] However, large East Asian diasporas , such as the Chinese , Japanese , Korean , and Mongolian diasporas , as well as diasporas of other East Asian ethnic groups, mean that the 1.677 billion does not ...