Libyan Escapees

Demographics of Libya is the demography of Libya, specifically covering population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, and religious affiliations, as well as other aspects of the Libyan population. The Libyan population resides in the country of Libya, a territory located on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, to the west of and adjacent to Egypt. Libyans live in Tripoli. It is the capital of the country and first in terms of urban population, as well as Benghazi, Libya's second largest city.

History

Historically Berber, over the centuries, Libya has been occupied by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Italians. The Phoenicians had a big impact on Libya. Many of the coastal towns and cities of Libya were founded by the Phoenicians as trade outposts within the southern Mediterranean coast in order to facilitate the Phoenician business activities in the area. Starting in the 8th century BC, Libya was under the rule of the Phoenician Carthage. After the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War, Libya became a Roman province under the name of Tripolitania until the 7th century AD when Libya was conquered by the Arab Muslims as part of the Arab conquest of North Africa, and Arab migrations to the region began since then. In the 11th century, major migrations of Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym from the Arabian Peninsula to Libya began, with other nomadic tribes from Eastern Arabia. Centuries after that, the Ottoman Empire conquered Libya in 1551. It remained in control of its territory until 1911 when the country was conquered by Italy. In the 18th century Libya was used as the base for various pirates.the story of the Awlad Sulayman, an Arab group from present-day Libia who dominated northern Lake Chad in the 19th century,. Since the Middle Ages, the populations of this region have shared close political, economic and social ties maintained by the mobility specific to the nomadic way of life. These relationships, fluid due to the difficulties of surviving in this difficult environment, have always been structured in turn, through conflict and cooperation, both of which produced rapidly changing alliances. In the middle of the 18th century, the Awlad Sulayman carved out a vast area of influence for themselves in Sirte and Fezzan by force of arms and by their alliances with neighboring peoples and the Libian administration. Defeated by the Ottoman administration in Tripoli at the end of the 1830s, the survivors of the Awlad Sulayman took refuge in the Lake Chad basin where they reconstituted the conditions for their success in Libya; they controlled trans-Saharan trade and maintained their links with Libian society. Despite the limits imposed on their action by the French colonization of Chad and the Italian colonization of Libia; the Awlad Sulayman retained regional influence during colonial times and appear to maintain it today.
In the Second World War Libya was one of the main battlegrounds of North Africa. During the war, the territory was under an Anglo-French military government until it was overrun by the Axis Powers, who, in turn, were defeated by the Allies in 1943.

In 1951, the country was granted independence by the United Nations, being governed by King Idris. In 1969, a military coup led by Muammar Gaddafi resulted in the overthrow of King Idris I. Gaddafi then established an anti-Western leadership. In 1970, Gaddafi ordered all British and American military bases closed.

The Libyan population has increased rapidly after 1969. They were only 2 million in 1968, and 5 million in 2006. . Many migrant workers came to Libya since 1969. Among the workers were construction workers and laborers from Tunisia, teachers and laborers from Egypt, teachers from Palestine, and doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. 1,000,000 workers, mainly from other neighboring African countries like Sudan, Niger and Mali, migrated to Libya in the 1990s, after changes were made to Libya's Pan-Africanism, Pan-African policies.http://www.temehu.com/Libyan-People.htm Temehu. Libyan people and Ethnic tribes. Retrieved 4 January 2011.

Gaddafi used money from the sale of oil to improve the living conditions of the population and to assist Palestinian guerrillas in their fight against the Israelis. In 1979, Libya fought in Uganda to assist the government of Idi Amin in the Ugandan Civil War, and in 1981, fought in the Libyan-Chadian War. Libya had occupied the Aozou Strip; however, in 1990 the International Court of Justice submitted the case and allowed the full recuperation of territory to Chad.

In September 2008, Italy and Libya signed a memorandum by which Italy would pay $5 billion over the next 20 years to compensate Libya for its dominion over Libya for its reign of 30 years.http://www.hejleh.com/countries/libya.html The Country & People of Libya. Posted 2003. Retrieved January 4, 2012, to 23:53 pm.

Since 2011, the country is swept by 2011 Libyan Civil War, Libyan Civil War, which broke out between the Anti-Gaddafi rebels and the Pro-Gaddafi government in 2011, culminating in the death and overthrow of Gaddafi. Nevertheless, even today Libya still continues to generate problems within the area and beyond, greatly affecting its population and the European migrant crisis, migrant route to Europe.

Population

Libya has a small population residing in a large land area. Population density is about 50 persons per km² (130/sq. mi.) in the two northern regions of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, but falls to less than one person per km² (2.7/sq. mi.) elsewhere. Ninety percent of the people live in less than 10% of the area, primarily along the coast. About 90% of the population is urban, mostly concentrated in the four largest cities, Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata and Bayda, Libya, Bayda. As of 2019, twenty-eight percent of the population is estimated to be under the age of 15, but this proportion has decreased considerably during the past decades. The majority of the population of Libya is composed of Arabs.

Age distribution

Data taken from United Nations Demographic Yearbook 2020

Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (1.VII.2015):

Population history

Population census

Eight population censuses have been carried out in Libya, the first in 1931 and the most recent one in 2006. The population multiplied sixfold between 1931 and 2006.

Vital statistics

During the past 60 years the demographic situation of Libya changed considerably. Since the 1950s, life expectancy increased steadily and the infant mortality rates decreased. As the fertility rates remained high until the 1980s (the number of births tripled between 1950–55 and 1980–85), population growth was very high for three decades. However, after 1985 a fast decrease in fertility was observed from over 7 children per woman in the beginning of the 1980s to less than 3 in 2005-2010. Because of this decrease in fertility the population growth slowed down and also the proportion of Libyans under the age of 15 decreased from 45% in 1985 to 29% in 2010.

Births and deaths

Source: UN DESA, World Population Prospects, 2022

Other demographic statistics

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022.
*One birth every 4 minutes
*One death every 15 minutes
*One net migrant every 288 minutes
*Net gain of one person in the population of libya every 6 minutes..

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook.

Population

:7,137,931 (2022 est.)
:6,754,507 (July 2018 est.)
:note: immigrants make up just over 12% of the total population, according to UN data (2019)

Religions

:Muslim (official; virtually all Sunni) 96.6%, Christian 2.7%, Buddhist <1%, Hindu <1%, Jewish <1%, folk religion <1%, other <1%, unafilliated <1% (2020 est.)

:note: non-Sunni Muslims include native Ibadhi Muslims (<1% of the population) and foreign Muslims

Age structure

:0-14 years: 33.65% (male 1,184,755/female 1,134,084)
:15-24 years: 15.21% (male 534,245/female 513,728)
:25-54 years: 41.57% (male 1,491,461/female 1,373,086)
:55-64 years: 5.52% (male 186,913/female 193,560)
:65 years and over: 4.04% (male 129,177/female 149,526) (2020 est.)

:0-14 years: 25.53% (male 882,099/ female 842,320)
:15-24 years: 16.81% (male 582,247/ female 553,004)
:25-54 years: 47.47% (male 1,684,019/ female 1,522,027)
:55-64 years: 5.77% (male 197,196/ female 192,320)
:65 years and over: 4.43% (male 147,168/ female 152,107) (2018 est.)

Median age

:total: 25.8 years. Country comparison to the world: 156th
:male: 25.9 years
:female: 25.7 years (2020 est.)

:total: 29.4 years
:male: 29.5 years
:female: 29.2 years (2018 est.)

Population growth rate

:1.65% (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 57th
:1.45% (2018 est.)

Birth rate

:21.56 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 62th
:17.2 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)

Death rate

:3.45 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 221st
:3.7 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.)

Net migration rate

:-1.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 161st
:0.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)

Total fertility rate

:3.09 children born/woman (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 46th

:3.71 children born/woman (2000 est.)
:3.01 children born/woman (2010 est.)
:2.12 children born/woman (2012 est.)
:2.03 children born/woman (2018 est.)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

:27.7% (2014)

Urbanization

:urban population: 80.1% of total population (2018)
:rate of urbanization: 1.68% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

Sex ratio

:at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
:0–14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
:15–24 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
:25–54 years: 1.1 male(s)/female
:55–64 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
:65 years and over: 1.01 male(s)/female
:total population: 1.07 male(s)/female (2017 est.)

Infant mortality rate

:total: 10.5 deaths/1,000 live births
:male: 11.3 deaths/1,000 live births
:female: 9.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)

Urbanization

:urban population: 81.3% of total population (2022)
:rate of urbanization: 1.45% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

:Total population: 73.08 years. (2020 est.)
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:Male: 70.27 years. (2020 est.)
:Female: 76.11 years. (2020 est.)

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:Total population: 73.44 years. (2022 est.)
:Male: 70.6 years. (2022 est.)
:
:Female: 76.46 years. (2022 est.)
:Country comparison to the world: 110rd

Literacy

:Definition: The percentage of the population of a given age group that can read and write
:Total population: 91%
:Male: 96.7%
:Female: 85.6% (2015)

Ethnic and tribal groups

Ethnic groups

97% of Libya's population is made up of Arabs and Berbers, of which 92% are Arabs and 5% are Berbers.

The majority of the population of Libya is primarily of Arabs, Arab ancestral origin. Unofficial estimates put the number of Berbers in Libya at around 600,000, about 10% of the population of Libya. Among the Berber groups are the minority Berber populations of Zuwarah and the Nafusa Mountains, and the nomadic Tuareg people, Tuareg, who inhabit the southwestern areas as well as parts of southeastern Algeria, northern Mali, Niger

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