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According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [5] [6], the total population was 17,065,581 in 2021, compared to 2,264,000 in 1950.The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 44.9%, 52.3% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.7% was 65 years or older.
In addition to Somali, Arabic, which is also an Afro-Asiatic tongue, is an official national language in Somalia and Djibouti. Many Somalis speak it due to millennia-old ties with the Arab world, the far-reaching influence of the Arabic media, and religious education. [179] Somalia and Djibouti are also both members of the Arab League. [39] [180]
[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 ...
The Jabarti are the biggest clan in terms of population and land size in Somalia and a large minority in Yemen, Oman, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Most Jabarti concentrated cities include Asmara , Addis Ababa , Kismayo , Badhan , Garowe , Lasanod , Garbaharrey , Jigjiga , Bosaso , Bardera , Buraan , Garissa , Daleti and Salalah .
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English: Visualization of estimated annual population trends in Somalia from 1950 - 2021; projection of the population trend from 2022-2032 using the 'medium variant' of the United Nations.
Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [18] [19] [20] of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of Somalia's residents are ethnic Somalis; the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though Somali is the primary language. Somalia has historic and religious ties to the Arab ...