Country Resource - Somalia
Somalia
- Population*......................................................................12,693,796 (2023 est.)
- Population growth rate ...........................................................2.49% (2023 est.)
- Birth rate..................................................37.71 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- Death rate...............................................11.43 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- Net migration rate...............................-1.42 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- Ethnic groups.....................................Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including 30,000 Arabs)
* This estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare
