Cambodia in Brief

The majority of the population in Cambodia is Khmer having inhabited the area since 1500 BC. The population in Cambodia is about 14.3 million with 96 percent of that number being Khmer, four percent being Vietnamese, Charm Muslims, Chinese or other. 

The life expectancy of a male in Cambodia is 62 years old with the female life expectancy being 66 years old.  This is mostly due to the conditions in which living in poverty in rural as well as the result of war has brought on in this country.  Cambodia’s population was devastated by war and genocide from 1970 until 1989, the time of the Khmer Rouge with the country’s mortality declining to zero with as many as 2 million people being killed unjustly during that time.  After the time of the Khmer Rouge people did move back into the towns and these areas have been growing since 1980. 

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