CIA Estimate of Middle East Population Trends in 1996

 

Total
Population

Pop. 0-14(%)

Growth Rate

Life
Expectancy

Fertility
Rate

Literacy
Rate (%)

North Africa

Mauritania

2,336,048

48

3.17

49.01

6.84

37.7

Morocco

29,779,156

38

2.05

69.52

3.58

43.7

Algeria

29,183,032

40

2.21

68.31

3.59

61.6

Tunisia

9,019,687

34

1.81

72.6

2.92

66.7

Libya

5,445,436

48

3.67

64.67

6.26

76.2

Total/Average

75,763,359

41.6

2.582

64.822

4.638

57.18

Arab-Israeli

Egypt

63,575,107

37

1.91

61.43

3.58

51.4

Israel

5,421,995

29

2.11

78.01

2.77

95

Jordan

4,212,152

44

2.65

72.48

5.1

86.6

Lebanon

3,776,317

36

2.16

69.99

3.24

92.4

Syria

15,608,648

47

3.37

67.13

5.91

70.8

Northern Gulf

Iran

66,094,264

45

2.21

67.39

4.72

72.1

Iraq

21,422,292

48

3.69

66.95

6.41

58

Southern Gulf

Bahrain

590,042

31

2.27

74.27

3.08

85.2

Kuwait

1,950,047

33

6.65

75.92

2.82

78.6

Oman

2,186,548

46

3.53

70.53

6.09

NA

Qatar

547,761

30

2.39

73.35

4.28

79.4

Saudi Arabia

19,409,058

43

3.45

69

6.45

62.8

UAE

3,057,337

35

4.33

72.74

4.46

79.2

Yemen

13,483,178

48

3.56

59.58

7.29

38

Red Sea

Djibouti

427,642

43

1.5

50.15

6.08

46.2

Eritrea

3,427,883

44

2.79

50.31

6.5

NA

Ethiopia

57,171,662

46

2.72

46.85

7

35.5

Somalia

9,639,151

44

3.1

55.49

7.01

24

Sudan

31,547,543

46

3.48

55.12

5.89

46.1

Related

Turkey

62,484,478

32

1.67

71.92

2.58

82.3

Source: Adapted by Anthony H. Cordesman from the CIA World Factbook, 1996, April, 1997.