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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 30,000,000 [1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Ethiopia | 25,489,000[2] |
 Kenya | 818,000[3] |
 Somalia | 256,300[4] |
 Yemen | 189,000 |
 United States | 150,563 |
 Germany | 90,000 |
 Great Britain | 28,000 |
 Djibouti | 25,664 |
 Canada | 17,580[5] |
 Australia | 12,000 |
 Saudi Arabia | 10,000 |
 Egypt | 3,100[6] |
| Languages | |
| Oromo | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam 47.5%, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity 30.5%, Protestant 17.7%, Traditional 3.3% | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Afar • Agaw • Beja • Saho • Somali • | |
The Oromo (Oromo: [Oromoo] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help), "The Powerful"; Ge'ez: ኦሮሞ, ’Oromo) are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, in northern Kenya, and to a lesser extent in parts of Somalia.[7] With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and approximately 34.49% of the population according to the 2007 census.[2][8] Their native language is Oromo (also called Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
- ↑ Oromo people, Joshua Project
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Central Statistical Agency (2008). "Census 2007" (PDF). Addis Ababa: Central Statistical Agency: 66. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help);|contribution=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ajuran, Garreh, Orma, Oromo-Boran, Oromo-Sakuye, Oromo-Gabbra, Rendille".
- ↑ Oromo-Tulama, Oromo-Southern
- ↑ Statistics Canada - Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census
- ↑ Oromo-Tulama
- ↑ Merriam-Webster Inc, Frederick C. Mish, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, (Merriam-Webster: 2003), p.876
- ↑ The CSA estimates a population growth of 7.6% between the time the census was conducted and the date of its approval: Lua error in ...ribunto/includes/engines/LuaCommon/lualib/mwInit.lua at line 17: bad argument #1 to 'old_pairs' (table expected, got nil).