- Capital: Mogadishu
- POPULATION:8.863 Million
- LANGUAGES: Somali(official)
- Median age: 18
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 45.13
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 16.63
- Life expectancy: 48.47
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 37.8%
  male: 49.7%
  female: 25.8% (2001 est.)
- Independence: 1 July 1960
- GDP per capita: $600

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