Official figures also suggest that South Africa’s population is not growing as rapidly as others, despite high levels of migration from other African countries. It does have relatively high urban population figures though and both Cape Town and Johannesburg rank amongst the ten most populated cities on the continent. With just less than 60 million living there, South Africa has a similar population to Italy and is slightly smaller than the UK and France. There’s quite a drop to the 5th most populated country in Africa. South Africa – 59.3 million Cape Town at night via thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0 By comparison, the neighbouring Republic of the Congo is one of the smaller African countries with only around 5.5 million residents. With a yearly change of just over 3%, it’s also one of the fastest growing populations in Africa with only four countries experiencing higher rates of growth (see the table at the bottom!).ĭR Congo is the most-populous officially Francophone country in the world and it’s likely to become one of the ten most populated countries in the world at some point in the 21st Century. DR Congo – 89.6 millionĪt number four, we have the Democratic Republic of Congo with a population of just shy of 90 million. The remainder mostly live in towns and cities on or close to the banks of the Nile which dissects the country, while the vast Saharan region of Egypt to the west of the Nile is very sparsely populated.Įgypt is also the second most visited country in Africa after Morocco! 4. Around 20% of Egyptians live in Cairo’s metropolitan area. Its population dynamics are slightly different though and its growth rate is the lowest of the top five countries. Aside from Nigeria and Ethiopia, it is the only African nation with a population of more than 100 million. Egypt – 102.3 million Cairo via Claudia Schillinger, CC BY-ND 2.0Įgypt is sometimes referred to as being part of the Middle East and while it is certainly part of the Arab world, geographically speaking it is an African nation with the country’s small Sinai Peninsula acting as a land bridge between Africa and Asia. However the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region could potentially alter that in 2021 and beyond. Indeed only South Africa and Uganda see higher figures in that regard on the African continent. Ethiopia is also one of the few countries in the region to experience positive net migration. That’s not solely down to high birth rates, although it is the primary factor. However its people are more spread out with the largest city and capital Addis Ababa not even ranking in the top 15 African cities by population. Located in the east of the continent, just north of the equator, there are around 115 million people living in the country as of 2021, and its population growth rate is similar to that of Nigeria. The countries with the highest birth rates are Niger, Somalia, DR Congo, Mali, Chad and Angola.Ethiopia is the second largest country in Africa by population. Even more African states crowd the top forty exceptions are Afghanistan (22), Solomon Islands (28), Timor-Leste (38), and the Marshall Islands (40). The fertility rate of countries is sometimes stylized as reproductive health.Īfrican nations are still leading the top twenty in the list of countries with the highest birth rates. San Marino, a small country that forms an enclave in Italy. Palau, a Micronesian group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean, and
Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, Tuvalu, an island country in the Polynesian part of the Pacific Ocean, Vatican City, an enclave in the city of Rome in Italy, The five countries in the world with the smallest population are: The five most populous countries in 2022 are China, India, followed by the European Union (which is not a country), the United States, the island nation of Indonesia, and Pakistan.Īmong the smallest countries in the world in terms of population are the island nations in the Caribbean and the Southern Pacific Ocean ( Oceania).
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