Distillers Country guides / Somalia
Somalia
A one-page guide to Somalia for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Official languages
- Somali, Arabic
- Currency
- Somali shilling (SOS)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 (EAT)
People
- Population growth
- 3.3% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 55.1%
- Aged under 15
- 46.6%
- Aged 65 and over
- 2.6%
- Life expectancy
- 59.0 years
Climate
Hot all year; north-east and centre arid, north-west and south semi-arid. Seasons follow winds: Jilal (dry), Gu (main rains), Xagaa (dry), Dayr (short rains).
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Somalia; World Bank indicators API; WHO Global Health Observatory API; UN Comtrade public API. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.