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Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

including

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, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Bhutanese people

The

Royal Government of Bhutan The Government of Bhutan has been a constitutional monarchy since 18 July 2008. The King of Bhutan is the head of state. The executive power is exercised by the Lhengye Zhungtshog, or council of ministers, headed by the Prime Minister. Legislat ...

listed the country's population as 752,700 in 2003. The Bhutanese numbers can be reconstructed from their 9th Five Year Plan documents, which lists the exact number of households in each gewog. If the Bhutanese refugee advocate groups are correct, a spot check of a southern gewog should show a massive under-reporting of population. The CIA World Fact book number has since been adjusted with a note of former inconsistencies, and attributes the difference to the government not including the "first modern census of Bhutan, conducted in 2005". In the 1970s Bhutan was one of the most isolated countries in the world and nobody knew how many people lived there since no census had ever been taken.

Demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the

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, unless otherwise indicated.

Population

:708,427 (July 2011 est.) :716,896 (July 2012 est.) :750,125 (July 2016 est.)

Population by Sex and Age Group

Median age :Total: 27.2 years :Male: 27.7 years :Female: 26.6 years (2016 est.) Urbanization :urban population: 38.6% of total population (2015) :rate of urbanization: 3.69% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Vital statistics

Below is a table of Bhutan vital statistics since 1950 published by the

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Births and deaths

(Government estimates)

Life expectancy at birth

:Total population: 70.2 years :Male: 68.8 years :Female: 71.7 years (2017 est.) Life expectancy at birth is 70.2 years, which is an increase from 66.3 years in 2005. Women (71.7 years) live longer than men (68.8). In 2018, Prime Minister

Tshering Tobgay Tshering Tobgay ( dz, ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས།; born 19 September 1965) is a Bhutanese politician, environmentalist, and cultural advocate who was the List of Prime Ministers of Bhutan, Prime Minister of Bhutan from J ...

announced that the average life expectancy at birth has surpassed 70.KuenselOnline
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Ethnic groups

Ngalop people The Ngalop ( dz, སྔལོངཔ་ ; "earliest risen people" or "first converted people" according to folk etymology) are people of Tibetan origin who migrated to Bhutan as early as the ninth century. Orientalists adopted the term "Bhote" or ...

and Sharchop people 63% : Lhotsampas (also known as

Nepalis Nepalis (English: Nepalese ; ne, नेपाली) are the citizens of Nepal under the provisions of Nepali nationality law. The country is home to people of many different national origins who are the descendants of immigrants from India, K ...

) 22% :Indigenous or migrant ethnic groups 15%

Religions

Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism (also referred to as Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Lamaism, Lamaistic Buddhism, Himalayan Buddhism, and Northern Buddhism) is the form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet and Bhutan, where it is the dominant religion. It is also in majo ...

75.3% :

Hinduism Hinduism () is an Indian religion or '' dharma'', a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global p ...

22.1% :Other 2.6%

Languages

Tshangla Tshangla is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Bodish branch closely related to the Tibetic languages. Tshangla is primarily spoken in Eastern Bhutan and acts as a lingua franca in the region; it is also spoken in the adjoining Tawang tract in the I ...

(sometimes referred to as Sharchopkha) 28% : Dzongkha (official) 24% : Nepali (locally referred as Lhotshamkha) 22% :

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26%

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Demographics Of Bhutan bn:ভুটানের জনপরিসংখ্যান