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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 ...
[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 total fertility rate (births per woman) for Africa is 4.1 as of 2024, the highest in the world. [5] The most populous African country is Nigeria with over 206 million inhabitants as of 2020 and a growth rate of 2.6% p.a. [6]
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. 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.
The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Africa as included in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, released on 13 March 2024 and based on data collected in 2024. [1] As of 2024, all African UN member states are included in the report.
Rank Country HDI 2022 data (2023-2024 report) rankings; Very high human development: 1 Seychelles: 0.802 High human development: 2 Mauritius: 0.796 3 Libya: 0.746 4 Algeria: 0.745 5 Tunisia: 0.732 6 Egypt: 0.728 7 South Africa: 0.717 8 Botswana: 0.708 Medium human development: 9 Morocco: 0.699 10 Gabon: 0.693
1.68 20 Rwanda: 1.74 21 Equatorial Guinea: 3.50 22 Nigeria: 2.53 23 Senegal: 2.57 24 Sierra Leone: 2.49 25 Democratic Republic of the Congo: 3.14 26 Ghana: 2.23 27 Mauritania: 1.99 28 Djibouti: 1.97 29 Central African Republic: 1.78 30 Republic of the Congo: 2.34 31 Gambia: 2.29 32 Somalia: 2.24 33 Namibia: 1.95 34 Gabon: 1.82 35 Chad: 3.09 36 ...
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
5 1 0 2 Sub-Saharan Africa [d] 1,137,938,708: 14.4% N/A 48 1 1 4 South-eastern Asia: 675,796,065: 8.5% 1.20% 11 0 0 0 Latin America and the Caribbean [e] 656,098,097: 8.30% N/A 33 0 7 12 Eastern Africa [f] 461,141,845: 5.8% 2.89% 18 1 0 4 South America [g] 434,254,119: 5.5% 1.06% 12 0 1 3 Western Africa [h] 418,544,337: 5.3% 2.78% 16 0 1 0 ...