Global InformationSomali people information
Soomaalida ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ุณููู ุงููุฏุงู | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Traditional area inhabited by the Somali ethnic group | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total population | |||||||||||||||||||
25.8 million[1]
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| Regions with significant populations | |||||||||||||||||||
| Horn of Africa | |||||||||||||||||||
 Somalia[a] | 17,597,511 (2022)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Ethiopia | 4,581,793 (2007)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Kenya | 2,780,502 (2019)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Djibouti | 534,000 (2017)[5] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Yemen | 500,000 (2014)[6] | ||||||||||||||||||
 United States | 164,723 (2022)[7] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Libya | 112,000 (2020)[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
 United Kingdom | 109,000 (2018)[9] | ||||||||||||||||||
 United Arab Emirates | 101,000[10] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Oman | 80,000[11] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Sweden | 66,369[12][13] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Canada | 62,550[14] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Tanzania | 60,000[15] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Norway | 43,196[16] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Uganda | 41,515[17] | ||||||||||||||||||
 South Africa | 27,000โ40,000[18] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Netherlands | 39,737[19] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Germany | 38,675[20] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Saudi Arabia | 34,000โ67,500[21][22] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Finland | 24,647[23] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Egypt | 22,709[24] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Denmark | 21,210[25] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Australia | 18,401[26] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Italy | 8,228[27] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Austria | 7,101[28] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Switzerland | 7,025[29] | ||||||||||||||||||
 Turkey | 5,518[30] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Languages | |||||||||||||||||||
| Somali | |||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||||||||||||
| Islam (Sunni) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Related ethnic groups | |||||||||||||||||||
| Afar โข Saho โข Oromo โข Rendille โข Cushites[41] | |||||||||||||||||||
The Somali people (Somali: Soomaalida, Osmanya: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, Wadaad: ุณููู ุงููุฏุงู) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa[42][43] who share a common ancestry, culture and history. The Lowland East Cushitic Somali language is the shared mother tongue of ethnic Somalis, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, and they are predominantly Sunni Muslim.[44][45] Forming one of the largest ethnic groups on the continent, they cover one of the most expansive landmasses by a single ethnic group in Africa.[46]
According to most scholars, the ancient Land of Punt and its native inhabitants formed part of the ethnogenesis of the Somali people. This ancient historical kingdom is where a great portion of their cultural traditions and ancestry are said to derive from.[47][48][49][50] Somalis share many historical and cultural traits with other Cushitic peoples, especially with Lowland East Cushitic people, specifically the Afar and the Saho.[51]
Ethnic Somalis are principally concentrated in Somalia (around 17.6 million),[52] Somaliland (5.7 million),[53] Ethiopia (4.6 million),[3] Kenya (2.8 million),[4] and Djibouti (534,000).[54] Somali diasporas are also found in parts of the Middle East, North America, Western Europe, African Great Lakes region, Southern Africa and Oceania.
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- ^ a b "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume IV: Distribution of Population by Socio-Economic Characteristics". Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. December 2019. p. 423. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
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- ^ "Table 1.3: Overseas-born population in the United Kingdom, excluding some residents in communal establishments, by sex, by country of birth, January 2018 to December 2018". Office for National Statistics. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2020. Figure given is the central estimate. See the source for 95% confidence intervals.
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- ^ "Ethnologue Oman". Ethnologue. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ "Statistics Sweden โ Foreign-born and born in Sweden".
- ^ Kleist, N. (2018). Somali Diaspora Groups in Sweden. Delmi.
- ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census โ Canada [Country] and Canada [Country]". 8 February 2017.
- ^ PeopleGroups.org. "PeopleGroups.org โ Somali of Tanzania". peoplegroups.org. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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- ^ "Iazzolino, G. (2014). A safe haven for Somalis in Uganda?. Rift Valley Institute briefing paper, Nairobi" (PDF).[dead link]
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- ^ "Statistics Finland". stat.fi.
- ^ "United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2015). Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin".
- ^ "StatBank Denmark". statbank.dk.
- ^ "Table 5. Ancestry by State and Territory of Usual Residence, Count of persons โ 2016(a)(b)". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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- ^ "Federal Statistical Office". Archived from the original on 17 April 2017.
- ^ UNHCR (1 August 2018). "Turkey Fact Sheet". unhcr.org.
- ^ "Somalis in Zambia seek better leadership". www.hiiraan.com. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ "Zambia : Somali Community in Zambia donate 35 trucks for garbage collection". LusakaTimes.com. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
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- ^ Charmarkeh, Houssein (2013). "Social Media Usage, Tahriib (Migration), and Settlement among Somali Refugees in France". Refuge. 29 (1): 43โ52. doi:10.25071/1920-7336.37505.
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- ^ UNHCR (1 February 2016). "Indonesia Fact Sheet". Unhcr.
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- ^ "Population Usually Resident and Present in the State who Speak a Language other than English or Irish at Home 2011 to 2016 by Birthplace, Language Spoken, Age Group and CensusYear โ StatBank โ data and statistics". www.cso.ie. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
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- ^ Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. 6 April 2010. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ "Somalia". World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 14 May 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
- ^ "Somali-people". Britannica. 23 September 2023.
- ^ Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia, (Greenwood Press: 2001), p.1
- ^ The Collapse of the Somali State: The Impact of the Colonial Legacy by A.M. Issa-Salwe (Page 1)
- ^ Egypt: 3000 Years of Civilization Brought to Life By Christine El Mahdy
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- ^ "Republic of Somaliland โ Country Profile 2021" (PDF). March 2021.
- ^ [2] โ Ethnologue.com
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