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Population in Africa

Population in Africa: latest available values for 54 countries, observation years, World Bank source and CSV export. The figures below come from prepared World Bank datasets. Every row shows its year; missing data is never replaced with an estimate.

Coverage : 54/54 countries · Source code : SP.POP.TOTL · Retrieved : 2026-10-20

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Values by country

Population · Latest available observation, with each country’s actual year
CountryPopulationYearSource
Algeria47.4m2025World Bank WDI
Angola39m2025World Bank WDI
Benin14.8m2025World Bank WDI
Botswana2.6m2025World Bank WDI
Burkina Faso24.1m2025World Bank WDI
Burundi14.4m2025World Bank WDI
Cabo Verde527.3k2025World Bank WDI
Cameroon29.9m2025World Bank WDI
Central African Republic5.5m2025World Bank WDI
Chad21m2025World Bank WDI
Comoros882.8k2025World Bank WDI
Congo, Rep.6.5m2025World Bank WDI
Côte d’Ivoire32.7m2025World Bank WDI
Djibouti1.2m2025World Bank WDI
DR Congo112.8m2025World Bank WDI
Egypt118.4m2025World Bank WDI
Equatorial Guinea1.9m2025World Bank WDI
Eritrea3.6m2025World Bank WDI
Eswatini1.3m2025World Bank WDI
Ethiopia135.5m2025World Bank WDI
Gabon2.6m2025World Bank WDI
Ghana35.1m2025World Bank WDI
Guinea15.1m2025World Bank WDI
Guinea-Bissau2.2m2025World Bank WDI
Kenya57.5m2025World Bank WDI
Lesotho2.4m2025World Bank WDI
Liberia5.7m2025World Bank WDI
Libya7.5m2025World Bank WDI
Madagascar32.7m2025World Bank WDI
Malawi22.2m2025World Bank WDI
Mali25.2m2025World Bank WDI
Mauritania5.3m2025World Bank WDI
Mauritius1.2m2025World Bank WDI
Morocco38.4m2025World Bank WDI
Mozambique35.6m2025World Bank WDI
Namibia3.1m2025World Bank WDI
Niger27.9m2025World Bank WDI
Nigeria237.5m2025World Bank WDI
Rwanda14.6m2025World Bank WDI
São Tomé and Príncipe240.3k2025World Bank WDI
Senegal18.9m2025World Bank WDI
Seychelles122.7k2025World Bank WDI
Sierra Leone8.8m2025World Bank WDI
Somalia19.7m2025World Bank WDI
South Africa64.7m2025World Bank WDI
South Sudan12.2m2025World Bank WDI
Sudan51.7m2025World Bank WDI
Tanzania70.5m2025World Bank WDI
The Gambia2.8m2025World Bank WDI
Togo8.6m2025World Bank WDI
Tunisia12.3m2025World Bank WDI
Uganda51.4m2025World Bank WDI
Zambia21.9m2025World Bank WDI
Zimbabwe17m2025World Bank WDI

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