World population/Somalia
Africa
Population of Somalia
20,305,912
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#66
world rank
0.24%
of world population
+3.22%
yearly change
+653,149
people this year
836,420
births a year
193,982
deaths a year
How the figure for Somalia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Somalia at 20,305,912 on 1 July 2026, and projects 20,959,061 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Somalia at number 66 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.24 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 836,420 births and 193,982 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.