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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 partially recognized country Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, commonly known as Western Sahara, which is a member of the African ...
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.
It shows the male to female sex ratio by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. If there is a discrepancy between The World Factbook and a country's census data, the latter may be used instead. A ratio above 1, for example 1.1, means there are more males than females (1.1 males for every female).
This is a 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.
Sex ratio by country for the over-65 population. Blue represents more men, red more women than the world average of 0.81 males/female. The human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population in the context of anthropology and demography. In humans, the natural sex ratio at birth is slightly biased
Ethnic groups in Africa by country (56 C) A. Demographics of Algeria (4 C, 3 P) Demographics of Angola (3 C, 1 P) B. Demographics of Benin (3 C, 1 P)
This is a list of African countries and dependencies by population density in inhabitants/km 2. ... South Africa: 44.7 116 1,219,912 471,011 54,490,000 31
With nearly 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; [10] [11] the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. [12] Based on 2024 projections, Africa's population will reach 3.8 billion people by 2099. [13]