Africa by the numbers
Ten continental series, eleven years, one comparable view. Select a dataset to chart it.
Population
billion people · World Population Prospects, 2024 Revision, Online Edition — medium variant. Values through 2023 are estimates; later years are projections.
Source: United Nations Population Division — World Population Prospects (2024 Revision, Online Edition — medium variant), last updated 2024-07-11
Largest economies
| Country | Region | GDP (USD bn) | Population (2026, UN WPP) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | North | 396 | 118.7M(projection) |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | Southern | 378 | 64.3M(projection) |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | West | 363 | 238.6M(projection) |
| 🇩🇿 Algeria | North | 247 | 47.2M(projection) |
| 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | East | 164 | 135.5M(projection) |
| 🇲🇦 Morocco | North | 147 | 38.4M(projection) |
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | East | 113 | 57.9M(projection) |
| 🇦🇴 Angola | Southern | 93 | 39.2M(projection) |
Data integrity checks
Automated validation of the master demographic dataset: missing sources or reference years, conflicting UN and World Bank values, stale data and implausible year-over-year changes.
- warning · burundi · UN 13,649,491 vs World Bank 14,390,003 for 2025: 5.1 percent apart.
- warning · djibouti · UN 1,103,256 vs World Bank 1,184,076 for 2025: 6.8 percent apart.
- warning · eritrea · UN 3,386,744 vs World Bank 3,607,003 for 2025: 6.1 percent apart.
- warning · liberia · UN 5,142,455 vs World Bank 5,731,206 for 2025: 10.3 percent apart.
- warning · rwanda · UN 13,001,815 vs World Bank 14,569,341 for 2025: 10.8 percent apart.
- warning · seychelles · UN 131,466 vs World Bank 122,730 for 2025: 7.1 percent apart.
- warning · somalia · UN 18,534,574 vs World Bank 19,654,739 for 2025: 5.7 percent apart.
- warning · togo · UN 9,468,604 vs World Bank 8,591,626 for 2025: 10.2 percent apart.