The population of Chad as of July 2011 is 10 758 945 people [1] .
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| one | 400,000 |
| 500 | 1,000,000 |
| 1000 | 2,000,000 |
| 1500 | 4,000,000 |
| 1700 | 5,000,000 [2] |
| 1800 | 6,000,000 |
| 1850 | 3,000,000 |
| 1900 | 1,500,000 |
| 1950 | 2,000,000 |
| 2000 | 8 419 000 |
| 2050 (forecast) | 18,275,000 |
| 2100 (forecast) | 39,671,000 |
Fertility - 4.45 (2016)
More than 200 ethnic groups live in the country, in the north and in the central regions: Arabs , Tuba , Zagava , Kanembu, Wadai, Fulbe , Hausa , Maba and others - mainly Muslims. In the south are the peoples of Sarah and others, mainly animists and Christians.
The official languages are French and Arabic, about 120 different languages and dialects are common in the country. The literacy rate is 47.5% (56% of men and 39.3% of women). The urban population is 28%, the urbanization rate is 4.6%. Only about 34% of the population have access to clean drinking water.
Basic statistics
- Age structure:
- under 14 years old: 45%
- 15 to 64 years old: 51%
- more than 64 years: 2.9%.
- Average age: 16.8 years (15.6 years for men and 17.9 years for women).
- Growth rate: 2.009% (as of 2011)
- Fertility: 39.4 per 1000 people
- Mortality: 15.47 per 1000
- Gender Structure:
- up to 15 years: 101 men per 100 women
- 15 to 64 years old: 92 men per 100 women
- over 64 years: 96 men per 100 women
- Child mortality: 95.31 per 1000 (101.18 for boys and 89.22 for girls)
- Life expectancy: 48.33 years (47.28 for men and 49.43 for women)
- Fertility: 5.05 children per 1 woman (as of 2011)
- HIV-infected: 3.4% (as of 2009)
- Emigration rate: 4.84 emigrants per 1000 population
Religion
Most Chadans are Muslims (57.8% [3] ). The country is dominated by Sunni Islam of the Malikite and Shafiite madhhab. In the north of the country, the influence of the Order of Kadir is widespread , in the south - the Tidjan , in some regions of the country there are Senusites .
Christians already make up 40% of the country's population [4] (in 1970 - 23% [3] ). The largest Christian denominations are Catholics (2.5 million [4] ), evangelical Christians from the Chad Evangelical Church (437 thousand), Plymouth brothers (300 thousand) and Pentecostals (187 thousand).
The number of believers in local traditional beliefs is steadily declining. Adherents of the Bahá'í faith (98,000 [3] ) achieved some success in Chad. The number of agnostics and atheists in 2010 was estimated at 6.5 thousand people [3] .
Notes
- ↑ CIA - The World Factbook
- ↑ Hughes, William (2007). A class-book of modern geography (Paperback). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 J. Gordon Melton , Martin Baumann. Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. - Oxford, England: ABC CLIO, 2002 .-- S. 534. - 3200 p. - ISBN 1-57607-223-1 .
- ↑ 1 2 Global Christianity . The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (December 19, 2011). Date of treatment May 13, 2013. Archived May 22, 2013.