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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]
Statistics Canada's 2006 census ranks people of Somali descent as the 69th largest ethnic group in Canada. [216] UN migration estimates of the international migrant stock 2015 suggest that 1,998,764 people from Somalia were living abroad. [217] [218] Somali women at a political function in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
[1] [2] [3] Tradition and folklore connects the origin of the Somali population by language and way of life, and societal organisations, by customs, and by a feeling of belonging to a broader family among individuals from the Arabian Peninsula. [4] [5] [6] The Somali people are a Muslim ethnoreligious group native to the Horn of Africa. [7]
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses, and due to rapid population growth. Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani ...
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate of 2018 indicates that 108,000 Somalis live in the UK. [3] There has also been some secondary migration of Somalis from mainland European countries to the United Kingdom. [58] [59] According to the 2011 UK Census, 71.5% of Somalia-born residents in England and Wales hold a UK passport. [60]
Bantu farmers near Kismayo. Various terms differentiating the Somali Bantu from ethnic Somalis have been in usage for a long time. However, the term "Somali Bantu" in specific is an ethnonym that was created by humanitarian agencies shortly after the outbreak of the civil war in Somalia in 1991.