Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
List of African countries by population. This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, which is sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [1]
West Africa. West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension ...
The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century [1] and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries. [2] Total population as of 2024 is about 1.5 billion, [3] with a growth rate of about 100 million every three years.
Senegal, [f] officially the Republic of Senegal, [g] is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land ...
The population history of West Africa is composed of West African populations that were considerably mobile and interacted with one another throughout the history of West Africa. [2] Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP ( Middle Pleistocene ). [3] During the Pleistocene, Middle Stone Age peoples (e.g., Iwo ...
The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS; also known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Collectively, these countries comprise an area of 5,114,162 km 2 (1,974,589 sq mi) and have an estimated population of over 424.34 million.
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa [3] is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa.
This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2022 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]