| |
|
2021 Population
|
Country
|
|
232,679,000
|
Nigeria
|
|
132,060,000
|
Ethiopia
|
|
116,538,000
|
Egypt
|
|
109,276,000
|
D. R. Congo
|
|
68,560,200
|
Tanzania
|
|
64,007,200
|
South Africa
|
|
56,432,900
|
Kenya
|
|
50,449,000
|
Sudan
|
|
50,015,100
|
Uganda
|
|
46,814,300
|
Algeria
|
|
38,671,706
|
Morocco
|
|
37,885,800
|
Angola
|
|
34,631,800
|
Mozambique
|
|
34,427,400
|
Ghana
|
|
31,965,000
|
Madagascar
|
|
31,934,200
|
Ivory Coast
|
|
29,123,700
|
Cameroon
|
|
27,032,400
|
Niger
|
|
24,478,600
|
Mali
|
|
23,548,800
|
Burkina Faso
|
|
21,655,300
|
Malawi
|
|
21,315,000
|
Zambia
|
|
20,299,100
|
Chad
|
|
19,009,200
|
Somalia
|
|
18,502,000
|
Senegal
|
|
16,634,400
|
Zimbabwe
|
|
14,754,800
|
Guinea
|
|
14,462,700
|
Benin
|
|
14,256,600
|
Rwanda
|
|
14,047,800
|
Burundi
|
|
|
2021 Population
|
Country
|
|
12,277,100
|
Tunisia
|
|
11,943,400
|
South Sudan
|
|
9,515,240
|
Togo
|
|
8,642,020
|
Sierra Leone
|
|
7,381,020
|
Libya
|
|
6,332,960
|
Rep. of the Congo
|
|
5,612,820
|
Liberia
|
|
5,330,690
|
Central African Republic
|
|
5,169,400
|
Mauritania
|
|
3,535,600
|
Eritrea
|
|
3,030,130
|
Namibia
|
|
2,759,990
|
Gambia
|
|
2,538,950
|
Gabon
|
|
2,521,140
|
Botswana
|
|
2,337,420
|
Lesotho
|
|
2,201,350
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
|
1,892,520
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
|
1,271,170
|
Mauritius
|
|
1,242,820
|
Eswatini
|
|
1,168,720
|
Djibouti
|
|
866,628
|
Comoros
|
|
524,877
|
Cape Verde
|
|
235,536
|
São Tomé and Príncipe
|
|
130,418
|
Seychelles
|
|
And Tunisia has more?!?!?!
The order of some of these countries is very surprising. I would have expected South Sudan and Senegal to have more and Burkina Faso to have less.