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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 years of age or younger. [ 2 ] This list also includes the French department Réunion , and the partially recognized country Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic , commonly known as Western ...
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
Rank Country Annual growth (%) 1 South Sudan 4.78 2 Angola 3.34 3 Malawi 2.28 4 Burundi 3.63 5 Uganda 3.27 6 Niger 3.63 7 Mali 2.95 8 Burkina Faso 2.53 9 Zambia 2.90 10 Ethiopia
As of 2019, the total population of Africa is estimated at 1.3 billion, representing 16 percent of the world's population. [15] According to UN estimates, the population of Africa may reach 2.49 billion by 2050 (about 26% of the world's total) and 4.28 billion by 2100 (about 39% of the world's total). [15]
South Africa's population rose to 62 million people last year from 51.8 million in 2011, according to census data from the statistics agency released on Tuesday. The census found roughly eight in ...
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]
Malta and parts of France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain are located on the African continental plate, some considerably closer to the African mainland than the European mainland but, politically, are generally considered to be European by convention. Egypt, although extending into Asia through the Sinai Peninsula, is considered an African state.