1. ForecastsSomalia

   Somalia: births are already as high as the UN expected only only after 2050

   2023: 789k. The UN's 2015 projection expected about 557k for 2023; only only after 2050 did it rise to this level, at least 27 years later.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Somalia: more babies born than in the UK
• The highest fertility in the world
• Somalia and Ethiopia: about 7.44 children per woman each in 1990, 6.13 and 3.99 in 2023
• Somalia: since 2012 fertility has been falling 2.7 times faster, from 7.21 to 6.13 children per woman
• Somalia and South Sudan: about 7.44 children per woman each in 1990, 6.13 and 3.86 in 2023
• The IMF foresaw 28 of 537 economic downturns around the world a year ahead

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