Kenya: population and cities Kenya population Population According to Countryaah website, Kenya has about 50 million residents. Ethnic composition The population of Kenya, apart from the immigrants, is composed of around 42 ethnic groups, of which around 21% are Kikuju, 15% Luo, 13% Luhya and 11% each Kalenjin and Kamba as well as around 30%… Read More »
Libya: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Libya has around 6.7 million people. Ethnic composition In Libya predominantly Arabs and minorities of Berbers live in a narrow strip in the north-west, Tuaregs in a smaller area in the west and south-west and Tebus in the south-east. There are also numerous workers from… Read More »
Ivory Coast: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) has about 26 million residents. Ethnic composition The population of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivorians) is made up of around 60 ethnic groups. These are about 23% Baoulé, 13% Bété, 15% Senufo, 14% Agni-Ashanti, 11% Malinké, 10% Kru, and also Mande,… Read More »
Lesotho: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, around 2.1 million people live in Lesotho, of which 1.8 million belong to the Basotho tribe. Among them are a few thousand Europeans and Asians. However, 3.3 million Basothos live in the Republic of South Africa. Ethnic composition About 99% of the population of Lesotho… Read More »
Liberia: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Liberia has around 5 million people. Population growth in the country is around 2.1% per year. Life expectancy is very low. It is just an average of 44.7 years. Ethnic composition The population of Liberia is made up of a total of 16 ethnic groups.… Read More »
Mauritania: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Mauritania has about 4.5 million residents. Life expectancy in Mauritania is around 60 years, and infant mortality is 7.8% of live births. Ethnic composition The population of Mauritania is roughly composed as follows: – more than 30% light-skinned Moors – more than 30% Haratin (black… Read More »
Madagascar: population and cities Population According to Countryaah website, Madagascar has about 27 million residents. The life expectancy of women is around 61.5 years and the life expectancy of men around 58.3 years. The high fertility rate (five children per woman) contrasts with the high infant mortality rate (74 out of 1,000 live births). Medical… Read More »
Mauritius: population and cities Population According to Countryaah website, Mauritius has about 1.3 million residents. Ethnic composition About 2/3 of the Mauritians have roots in India. Another large ethnic group are the Creoles, i.e. former slaves from Africa and Madagascar, who have mixed with other ethnic groups (mainly from Europe. Another 2% are of Chinese… Read More »
Morocco: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Morocco has about 36.5 million residents. Ethnic composition The population of Morocco consists of around 60% Arabs and around 40% Berbers. There is also a French minority in the country. Religious affiliation 99% of the residents of Morocco are Muslims (80% of them Malakite Sunnis).… Read More »
Malawi: population and cities Population According to Countryaah website, Malawi has around 19 million residents. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 2002 and 2005 it was also hit by drought disasters. In addition, almost a quarter of the country’s population is now considered to be infected with HIV. Ethnic composition… Read More »
Mali: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Mali has about 20.2 million residents, of which about 2.5 million live in the capital Bamako. The country’s illiteracy rate is very high. Although around 47% of children have attended school, 74% of all around 15-year-olds in Mali are illiterate. Average life expectancy is very… Read More »
Nigeria: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, about 214 million people live in Nigeria. This makes Nigeria the most populous country on the continent. Current life expectancy is 51.3 years for men and 51.7 years for women. The birth rate of 45.4 per 1,000 people contrasts with a death rate of 15.4… Read More »
Namibia: Population and Cities Population According to Countryaah website, Namibia has approx. 2.7 million residents with an area of 824,292 km². The country is therefore extremely sparsely populated and after Mongolia the state with the lowest population density in the world. About 2/3 of the people live in the districts of Caprivi, Kavango, Ohangwena, Omusati,… Read More »
Mozambique: population and cities Population Population and social situation According to Countryaah website, Mozambique has around 30 million residents. Life expectancy in the country is still relatively low. It averages 44 years for women and 42 years for men. The 43% of the population who are under 15 years old are compared to just 3%… Read More »
Niger: population and cities Population According to Countryaah website, Niger has about 23.3 million residents. The residents are called Nigerians. The vast majority of Niger’s residents live in the south of the country. They mainly settled on the borders with Nigeria and Benin. In the north of the country there are many oasis residents as… Read More »
Reunion: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, about 850,000 people currently live on Reunion Island, which equates to a population density of about 335 residents per km² given the size of the island. The islanders are called Reunionaisen. In the coming decades, La Réunion is expected to experience significant population growth. Ethnic… Read More »
Republic of the Congo: population, cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, approximately 5.5 million people live in the Republic of the Congo. With just 11 residents per km², the population density is very low. 1/4 of the country’s people live in the capital Brazzaville alone. Ethnic composition The population of the Republic of the… Read More »
Somalia: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, the population of Somalia is around 15.9 million. The information about the exact number varies, especially since the last census is more than 30 years ago. The numerical information is based on statistical assumptions on demographic variables such as migration, population growth, etc. The UN… Read More »
South Africa: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, South Africa has about 59.6 million residents. Ethnic groups About 77% of the residents of South Africa are black Africans or people of color. Blacks include members of the tribes of the Zulu, Xhosa, North Sotho, South Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Swasi, Ndebele and Venda.… Read More »
Rwanda: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Rwanda currently has about 13 million people, with a population density of 433 people per square kilometer, the highest in Africa. About 42.3% of people are under 14 years old and 55% are 15 to 64 years old. Only 2.7% are older than 65 years.… Read More »
Senegal: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, approximately 16 million people live in Senegal, around 60% of whom are under 20 years of age. The life expectancy of women is 53 years, that of men 58 years. Due to the annual population growth of around 2%, the country’s population has doubled over… Read More »
Sierra Leone: Population and Cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, about 7.5 million people live in Sierra Leone, which gives the country a population density of about 73 people per km². The people are called Sierra Leoneans, by the way. In the course of her life, a woman in the country statistically gives birth… Read More »
Sao Tome and Principe: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, São Tomé and Príncipe has around 210,000 residents, the majority of whom live on São Tomé. The population increases by about 3% per year. Infant and child mortality is very high at around 7.5%. The life expectancy of women is 67.3 years,… Read More »
Seychelles: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, there are currently around 95,000 people living in the Seychelles, known as Seychellois and Seychelloises. About 26.5% of the population are up to 14 years old, 67.5% between 15 and 64 years and 6% 65 years old and older. The population growth is 0.4%. The… Read More »
Tanzania: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Tanzania has about 59 million people who are called Tanzanians. The population trend is increasing because the country is showing remarkable growth. This is already clear from the fertility rate, which according to a Tanzanian woman gives birth to an average of 5.3 children. Only… Read More »
Sudan: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, an estimated 43.5 million people currently live in Sudan. Unfortunately, the information about the population figures often contradict each other. Around 39% of Sudanese live in the country’s cities, most of them of course in the metropolitan area of Khartoum. Almost 40% of the residents… Read More »
South Sudan: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, South Sudan has around 12.9 million residents, of which more than 500,000 live in the capital Juba. Difficulties in determining the population size more precisely are caused by the fact that around four million South Sudanese live in northern Sudan or abroad because of… Read More »
Swaziland: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, in Swaziland around 1.2 million people, with the tendency that the population will shrink very sharply in the next few years due to AIDS, poverty, high child mortality and emigration (especially to South Africa). The population growth rate of Swaziland, one of the poorest countries… Read More »
Togo: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, Togo has about 8 million residents, who are called Togoers. The terms Togolese and Togolesin are somewhat more common and also not wrong. With an average of 58 years, Togolese people have one of the highest life expectancies in all of West Africa. The population… Read More »
Uganda: population and cities Population Population According to Countryaah website, an estimated 44 million people live in Uganda, with the population density being quite high, especially in the south of the country. Over half of the country’s people are under 15 years old, making Uganda’s population the youngest on average. The average life expectancy is… Read More »