Country Resource - Somalia

- Population...................................................................... 12,094,640 (July 2021 est.)
- Population growth rate .......................................................... 2.35% (2021 est.)
- Birth rate....................................................... 38.25 births/1,000 population (2021 est.)
- Death rate................................................. 11.82 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
- Net migration rate................................. -2.98 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 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