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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.
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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.
Official correctional figures at the population level for Somali residents are uncertain since Canadian law enforcement is prohibited from compiling ethnicity-based crime statistics. [10] The SCYM non-profit organization estimates that over people in the community have died from gun violence in the period between 2005 and 2016.
[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]
Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland.They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived.