Somali population growth 2050

[NoAngst]

Most population growth projections turn out to be wrong. There are too many variables that can impact the trajectory of population growth.

The only thing we can be certain of is that 35 years from now the population of Somalia will be bigger than the current figures and it will be relatively young given the youth bulge underway.

The rate and size is hard to predict.

[barbarossa]

Good to know we Skinnies are set to retain our laangaab status through the year 2050 and beyond. Now, do we have among us an aspiring wajixun fanaan to sing us a tolerable rendition
of our newly adopted and aptly entitled national anthem 'Born to be Guun'?

[LobsterUnit]

The average Somali family have a lot of kids. Most I've encountered was 5-8. The other ethnics in the Horns do not produce as much as Somalis do.

So, I fail to figure out why their population is small? Even when their territories are bigger than the other ethnics?

Something is not right or is having kids is just common in the West and not Somalia?

High death rate, low life expectancy and Somali Republic is just Somali ethnic unlike other countries, which are made up of multi-ethnics.

If you put Somalis against Amhara, Tigrai, Oromo, Kikuyu, Afar, Sidamo, Beja, Tigre, Gurage----they are big force with big land.

The problem is Somalis didn't absorb other ethnics apart from small Oromo (maximum 2 million today). Now compare that to Oromo. There is no true Oromo "Oromo". It is all absorbed ethnics and confederates of many tribes.

They absorbed and assimilated every ethnic they conquered or defeated.

If you take out the real Oromo they are no more than Borana.

In Oromo culture the oldest son is Borana and yet true Boranas are no more than 5 million but Oromo add all these fake branches which are nothing but people they conquered, converted and assimilated including Habesha, Nilotics, Cushitic groups including Sidamo, Afar, and even they stole many Somalis.

While Somalis conquered lands, Oromo conquered people and that's why today one has the vast land and the other vast population.

Before the 19th century the Somali population was very very tiny----no more than 4 million. By 1970s, the Somali Republic had no more than 7 million.

So you can imagine in the 15th century most likely Somalis were no more than Djibouti's population today.

True story.

Our Ancestors were true warriors.there are Bantu groups as far as Tanzania who have oral histories detailing a flight from the Somali conquests in modern day southern Somalia and northern Kenya.i guess geeljires cared more about land than people.