Somalia SO: Population: Growth data was reported at 2.922 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 2.904 % for 2016. Somalia SO: Population: Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 2.731 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11.814 % in 1977 and a record low of 0.114 % in 1984. Somalia SO: Population: Growth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Somalia – Table SO.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage . Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.; ; Derived from total population. Population source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

Author: K Mayberry, educator, Minnesota Alliance for Geographic EducationGrade/Audience: grade 8, high schoolResource type: lessonSubject topic(s): migration, maps, historyRegion: united statesStandards: Minnesota Social Studies Standards

Standard 2. Geographic inquiry is a process in which people ask geographic questions and gather, organize and analyze information to solve problems and plan for the future.

Standard 5. The characteristics, distribution and migration of human populations on the earth’s surface influence human systems (cultural, economic and political systems).

Standard 7. The characteristics, distribution and complexity of the earth’s cultures influence human systems (social, economic and political systems).

Standard 14. Globalization, the spread of capitalism and the end of the Cold War have shaped a contemporary world still characterized by rapid technological change, dramatic increases in global population and economic growth coupled with persistent economic and social disparities and cultural conflict. (The New Global Era: 1989 to Present)

Standard 8. Processes of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth’s surface. Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. Read and analyze maps.
2. Use evidence, including maps and readings, to explain the background to and causes of the Somalia civil war.
3. Use evidence, including oral interviews and readings, to explain why many Somalis migrated to Minnesota in a reflection essay.Summary: Minnesota currently has the highest percentage of Somali people in the U.S., and the vast majority of the students that I teach are of Somali descent. It is important for Somali-Americans to know their own history. With this in mind, students will complete a guided inquiry lesson using maps, primary sources, and secondary sources to answer the question: Why did so many people migrate from Somalia to Minnesota? This question is multifaceted. First, students need to understand the background to the Somalia conflict. Next, they need to understand why many Somalis chose Minnesota as their newest home.

Somalia SO: Population: Total data was reported at 14,742,523.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 14,317,996.000 Person for 2016. Somalia SO: Population: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 7,231,856.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14,742,523.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 2,755,947.000 Person in 1960. Somalia SO: Population: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Somalia – Table SO.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Sum; Relevance to gender indicator: disaggregating the population composition by gender will help a country in projecting its demand for social services on a gender basis.

somalia - Population Growth for Somalia was 3.07939 % Chg. at Annual Rate in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, somalia - Population Growth for Somalia reached a record high of 3.65720 in January of 2021 and a record low of 3.02513 in January of 2022. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for somalia - Population Growth for Somalia - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Somalia SO: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Asylum data was reported at 11,559.000 Person in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 8,081.000 Person for 2015. Somalia SO: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Asylum data is updated yearly, averaging 647.500 Person from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 26 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 460,000.000 Person in 1990 and a record low of 130.000 Person in 1999. Somalia SO: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Asylum data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Somalia – Table SO.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Refugees are people who are recognized as refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, people recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. Asylum seekers--people who have applied for asylum or refugee status and who have not yet received a decision or who are registered as asylum seekers--are excluded. Palestinian refugees are people (and their descendants) whose residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Country of asylum is the country where an asylum claim was filed and granted.; ; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistics Database, Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data from UNHCR are available online at: www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html.; Sum;

Somalia SO: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Origin data was reported at 1,012,277.000 Person in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,123,156.000 Person for 2015. Somalia SO: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Origin data is updated yearly, averaging 608,094.000 Person from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,136,719.000 Person in 2012 and a record low of 389,314.000 Person in 2004. Somalia SO: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Origin data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Somalia – Table SO.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Refugees are people who are recognized as refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, people recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. Asylum seekers--people who have applied for asylum or refugee status and who have not yet received a decision or who are registered as asylum seekers--are excluded. Palestinian refugees are people (and their descendants) whose residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Country of origin generally refers to the nationality or country of citizenship of a claimant.; ; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistics Database, Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data from UNHCR are available online at: www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html.; Sum;

DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT (DIMU) ORGANIZATION: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP SOMALIA) MODIFIED BY: DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT UNDP SOMALIA MODIFICATION DATES: 22/03/2001

The settlements where digitized from Somalia topographic maps at a scale of 1: 100,000. The maps were produced by stereo photography using aerial photography 1974.Printed 1976 by Bureau of cartography, Ministry of Defence, Somalia Democratic government.

Reprinted by Canadian Forces Mapping and Charting Establishment from reprographic material of native Somalia mapping by the British Director of Military Survey.

Other settlements were collated from gazetteer data ( Defense Mapping Agency USA) and UNDOS, populations surveys 1997/98 of N.W Somalia- Middle and lower Shabelle.

STATUS COMPLETE

TABLES SOURCE: DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT UNDP SOMALIA SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE: 2000 ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY: Good STATUS: COMPLETE

FIELDS DESCRIPTION SETT_ID Internal Feature Number HUTS Number of huts in a settlement HOUSES Number of houses in a settlement NAME Name of the settlement PCODE Alphanumeric coding system for coding the settlements based on the region and district they belong to. CODE Code assigned to the settlements to classify them. Code definition 1 = Settlement 5 = Other town 10 = District town 100 = Regional Capital 1000 = Capital town REG_CODE Codes assigned to the regions. From 1 to 17 REGION Name of the region DISTRICT Name of the district SOURCE Source of the settlement either gazetteer, topomap or survey. PPRWARES Population pre-war estimated using number of nomadic huts. PPRWANS Population pre-war estimated using number of houses. TOP_POP Population from the topomaps. SUR_POP Field Survey populations. X COOD X coordinate of the settlement or the easting Y COOD Y coordinate of the settlement or the northing.

Abstract (en): In this special topic poll, respondents were queried regarding United States involvement in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. Those surveyed were asked if the United States should be sending troops to Somalia to insure that food shipments got through to the people, whether food would get to the Somalians without United States military involvement, whether troops should stay in Somalia only as long as it took to set up supply lines, and whether sending troops to Somalia was worth the possible cost of American lives. Respondents were also asked if they favored the United States using its military forces to keep Serbia from violating the United Nations ban on Serbian flights over Bosnia, whether it was more important for the United States to be involved in Somalia or the former Yugoslavia, and whether helping the homeless and hungry in the United States was more important than trying to get food to the people in Somalia. Background information on respondents includes age, race, education, family income, service in the United States armed forces or reserves, political orientation, and party preference. ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels.. Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having telephones at home. A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic region, area code, and size of place. Within households, respondents were selected using a method developed by Leslie Kish and modified by Charles Backstrom and Gerald Hursh (see Backstrom and Hursh, SURVEY RESEARCH [Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963]). 2010-01-28 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection. A weight variable has been included and must be used for any analysis.

Overview

At the end of the 2018 fiscal year, the U.S. had resettled 22,491 refugees -- a small fraction of the number of people who had entered in prior years. This is the smallest annual number of refugees since Congress passed a law in 1980 creating the modern resettlement system.

It's also well below the cap of 45,000 set by the administration for 2018, and less than thirty percent of the number granted entry in the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency. It's also significantly below the cap for 2019 announced by President Trump's administration, which is 30,000.

The Associated Press is updating its data on refugees through fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, to help reporters continue coverage of this story. Previous Associated Press data on refugees can be found here.

Data obtained from the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration show the mix of refugees also has changed substantially:

• The numbers of Iraqi, Somali and Syrian refugees -- who made up more than a third of all resettlements in the U.S. in the prior five years -- have almost entirely disappeared. Refugees from those three countries comprise about two percent of the 2018 resettlements.
• In 2018, Christians have made up more than sixty percent of the refugee population, while the share of Muslims has dropped from roughly 45 percent of refugees in fiscal year 2016 to about 15 percent. (This data is not available at the city or state level.)
• Of the states that usually average at least 100 resettlements, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, Florida, California, Oklahoma and Texas have seen the largest percentage decreases in refugees. All have had their refugee caseloads drop more than 75% when comparing 2018 to the average over the previous five years (2013-2017).

The past fiscal year marks a dramatic change in the refugee program, with only a fraction as many people entering. That affects refugees currently in the U.S., who may be waiting on relatives to arrive. It affects refugees in other countries, hoping to get to the United States for safety or other reasons. And it affects the organizations that work to house and resettle these refugees, who only a few years ago were dealing with record numbers of people. Several agencies have already closed their doors; others have laid off workers and cut back their programs.

Because there is wide geographic variations on resettlement depending on refugees' country of origin, some U.S. cities have been more affected by this than others. For instance, in past years, Iraqis have resettled most often in San Diego, Calif., or Houston. Now, with only a handful of Iraqis being admitted in 2018, those cities have seen some of the biggest drop-offs in resettlement numbers.

About This Data

Datasheets include:

• Annual_refugee_data: This provides the rawest form of the data from Oct. 1, 2008 – Sept. 30, 2018, where each record is a combination of fiscal year, city for refugee arrivals to a specific city and state and from a specific origin. Also provides annual totals for the state.
• City_refugees: This provides data grouped by city for refugee arrivals to a specific city and state and from a specific origin, showing totals for each year next to each other in different columns, so you can quickly see trends over time. Data is from Oct. 1, 2008 – Sept. 30, 2018, grouped by fiscal year. It also compares 2018 numbers to a five-year average from 2013-2017.
• City_refugees_and_foreign_born_proportions: This provides the data in City_refugees along with data that gives context to the origins of the foreign born populations living in each city. There are regional columns, sub-regional columns and a column specific to the origin listed in the refugee data. Data is from the American Community Survey 5-year 2013-2017 Table B05006: PLACE OF BIRTH FOR THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. ### Caveats According to the State Department: "This data tracks the movement of refugees from various countries around the world to the U.S. for resettlement under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program." The data does not include other types of immigration or visits to the U.S.

The data tracks the refugees' stated destination in the United States. In many cases, this is where the refugees first lived, although many may have since moved.

Be aware that some cities with particularly high totals may be the locations of refugee resettlement programs -- for instance, Glendale, Calif., is home to both Catholic Charities of Los Angeles and the International Rescue Committee of Los Angeles, which work at resettling refugees.

About Refugee Resettlement

The data for refugees from other countries - or for any particular timeframe since 2002 - can be accessed through the State Department's Refugee Processing Center's site by clicking on "Arrivals by Destination and Nationality."

The Refugee Processing Center used to publish a state-by-state list of affiliate refugee organizations -- the groups that help refugees settle in the U.S. That list was last updated in January 2017, so it may now be out of date. It can be found here.

For general information about the U.S. refugee resettlement program, see this State Department description. For more detailed information about the program and proposed 2018 caps and changes, see the FY 2018 Report to Congress.

Queries

The Associated Press has set up a number of pre-written queries to help you filter this data and find local stories. Queries can be accessed by clicking on their names in the upper right hand bar.

• Find Cities Impacted - Most Change -- Use this query to see the cities that have seen the largest drop-offs in refugee resettlements. Creates a five-year average of how many refugees of a certain origin have come in the past, and then measures 2018 by that. Be wary of small raw numbers when considering the percentages!
• Total Refugees for Each City in Your State -- Use this query to get the number of total refugees who've resettled in your state's cities by year.
• Total Refugees in Your State -- Use this query to get the number of total refugees who've resettled in your state by year.
• Changes in Origin over Time -- Use this query to track how many refugees are coming from each origin by year. The initial query provides national numbers, but can be filtered for state or even for city.
• Extract Raw Data for Your State -- Use this query to type in your state name to extract and download just the data in your state. This is the raw data from the State Department, so it may be slightly more difficult to see changes over time. ###### Contact AP Data Journalist Michelle Minkoff with questions, mminkoff@ap.org

This scatter chart displays GDP (current US$) against individuals using the Internet (% of population) in Somalia. The data is about countries per year.