Oman’s child population to touch 1.5m in 2040

Oman’s child population to touch 1.5m in 2040

Muscat:The number of Omani children aged between 0 to 17 is expected to touch 1.5 million children in 2040, while the number of Omani women is expected to reach 2 million and 62,045 (20,62,045), according to a statistics report released by the National Center for statistics and Information (NCSI) in its latest edition.The report also revealed that the number of elderly people is expected to reach 376,716 in the next 16 years.According to the past data analysis, the total number of children in the Sultanate of Oman in 2022 reached 1.4 million, of whom Omanis constituted about 87 percent, with a total of 1.2 million children, while the gender ratio among Omani children reached 104 males for every 100 females.The largest percentage of Omani children were in the age group from 5 to 9 years, at 33 percent, followed by the age group from 0 to 4 years, at 30 percent, then from 10 to 14 years, at 25 percent, while the percentage for the age group from 15 to 17 years was 12 percent.Health indicators show that the life expectancy at birth for children in the Sultanate of Oman in 2022 reached 77 years, while the crude Omani