Demographics
According to the 2010 census, the total population was 2,773,479 and of those, 1,957,336 were Omanis. The population has grown from 2,340,815 million in the 2003 census. The total fertility rate in 2011 was estimate at 3.70. 43% of the population is under the age of 15. About 50% of the population lives in Muscat and the Batinah coastal plain northwest of the capital; about 200,000 live in the Dhofar (southern) region, and about 30,000 live in the remote Musandam Peninsula on the Strait of Hormuz.
The country has a racially mixed population, a legacy of its imperial past. Many Omani people originate from East Africa or Baluchistan. Some 600,000 foreigners live in Oman, most of whom are guest workers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, India and the Philippines.
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