African Population
You've got 30 people in a room.
- 9 will be from Greater Nigeria (4 actually from Nigeria proper)
- 7 will be from Egypt and the Horn of Africa
- 6 will be from the Eastern Rift area (Kenya to Mozambique)
- 5 will be from Zaire, Angola, South Africa and Madagascar
- 3 will be from the North Coastal area (Morocco to Libya)
Each person represents 24 million people,
for a rough total of 720 million people in Africa.
Greater Nigeria
The area south of the Sahara, north of the equator, on the western
side of Africa. Ghana and Mali empires were here, roughly in the
Niger basin. Total population is about 222 million people.
- Nigeria 101.1 mil
- Chad 5.5 mil
- Central African Republic 3.2 mil
- Niger 8.9 mil
- Mali 9.3 mil
- Mauritania 2.2 mil
- Senegal 9.0 mil
- Guinea Bissau 1.1 mil
- Guinea 6.5 mil
- Sierra Leone 4.7 mil
- Gambia 1.0 mil
- Liberia 3.1 mil
- Cote d'Ivoire 14.8 mil
- Ghana 17.7 mil
- Burkina Faso 10.4 mil
- Togo 4.4 mil
- Benin 5.5 mil
- Cameroon 13.5 mil
- Equatorial Guinea 0.4 mil
Egypt and the Horn of Africa
Total population about 162 million people.
- Egypt 60.7 mil
- Ethiopia 60.7 mil
- Sudan 30.1 mil
- Somalia 6.7 mil
- Eritrea 3.7 mil
Eastern Rift area
Total population about 142 million folks.
- Kenya 29.1 mil
- Tanzania 28.7 mil
- Uganda 20.4 mil
- Rwanda 8.6 mil
- Burundi 6.3 mil
- Zimbabwe 11.1 mil
- Zambia 9.4 mil
- Malawi 9.6 mil
- Mozambique 18.4 mil
Southern Africa
Including Madagascar, we've got another 123 million here.
- South Africa 45.1 mil
- Zaire 44.0 mil
- Angola 10.1 mil
- Gabon 1.1 mil
- Congo 2.5 mil
- Botswana 1.4 mil
- Lesotho 2.0 mil
- Namibia 1.6 mil
- Swaziland 1.0 mil
- Madagascar 13.9 mil
North Coastal
Top it off with another 72 million folks living up north.
- Morocco 29.2 mil
- Algeria 28.5 mil
- Tunisia 8.9 mil
- Libya 5.2 mil
- West Sahara .2 mil
Additional world population details
Africa Maps
Cris A Fitch cfitch@alum.mit.edu