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This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, also sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [1] Africa is also the youngest continent, as 60% of Africa is 24 ...
Seaside of Egypt's third-largest city and its ancient capital: Alexandria, the largest port in this bicontinental country. East Africa's central business hub and Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Cape Peninsula of Cape Town, Africa's southernmost city and the second largest one in South Africa, also its legislative capital. Kampala is the hub of Uganda.
The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century [1] and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by increasing life expectancy in most African countries. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Total population as of 2024 is about 1.5 billion, [ 4 ] with a growth rate of about 100 million every three years.
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods. The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history.
City Country Administrative area according to local national census authorities Urban agglomerations United Nations - 2020 [1] Urban agglomerations citypopulation.de - 2023 [2] Image Cairo Egypt: 10,044,894 (2022) [3] Governorate: 20,901,000 22,200,000 Lagos Nigeria: 27,000,000 (2023) [4] 14,368,000 30,000,000 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of ...
List of countries and dependencies by population density; List of countries by past and projected future population; List of countries by population in 1900; List of countries by population in 2005; List of countries by population in 2010; List of population concern organizations; List of religious populations; List of sovereign states; World ...
Southern Africa’s middle-income countries will continue to miss out on the demographic opportunity of having above-average shares of people of working age in populations unless their governments ...
Capital city; List of countries whose capital is not their largest city; List of capitals outside the territories they serve; List of national capitals by latitude; List of countries and dependencies by population; List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants; List of population concern organizations; List of national capitals