This is a list of African countries and dependent territories sorted by population, which is sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data.
Country | Population |
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206,139,589 |
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114,963,588 |
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102,334,404 |
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89,561,403 |
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59,734,218 |
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59,622,350 |
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53,714,296 |
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45,741,007 |
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43,000,420 |
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42,268,269 |
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37,034,729 |
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28,013,000 |
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31,072,940 |
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24,383,301 |
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22,316,895 |
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22,671,331 |
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22,434,363 |
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21,917,602 |
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18,450,494 |
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17,138,707 |
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16,832,900 |
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15,473,905 |
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14,528,662 |
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14,354,690 |
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13,061,239 |
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11,039,873 |
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10,982,754 |
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10,628,972 |
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10,515,973 |
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10,008,749 |
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9,823,828 |
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8,260,490 |
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6,536,000 |
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6,348,350 |
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6,191,155 |
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5,298,152 |
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3,859,139 |
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3,718,678 |
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3,697,490 |
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3,476,608 |
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2,280,700 |
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2,024,904 |
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1,894,194 |
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1,882,450 |
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1,802,278 |
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1,530,673 |
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1,261,208 |
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1,222,442 |
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1,119,375 |
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864,618 |
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840,974 |
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806,200 |
Western Sahara[5] | 510,713 |
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491,875 |
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212,600 |
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201,784 |
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90,945 |
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5,633 |