The other ethnic group with the second majority is the Tonga people of Nkhatabay District that constitutes about 6% of the population of the region.

Total and Percent Distribution of Population by Single Year of Age (Census 09.03.2018)[1] Numbers are in thousands.

UN medium variant projections [2] Registration of vital events is in Malawi not complete.

The website Our World in Data prepared the following estimates based on statistics from the Population Department of the United Nations.

[7] [failed verification] English (official) Protestant 33.5% (includes Church of Central Africa Presbyterian 14.2%, Seventh Day Adventist/Baptist 9.4%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Anglican 2.3%), Roman Catholic 17.2%, other Christian 26.6%, Muslim 13.8%, traditionalist 1.1%, other 5.6%, none 2.1% (2018 est.)