List of African countries by population

This is a list of African countries and dependencies by population.

Pos	Country	Population
-	Africa	934,283,426
1	Nigeria	135,031,164
2	Egypt	80,335,036
3	Ethiopia	76,511,887
4	Congo-Kinshasa	65,751,512
5	South Africa	43,997,828
6	Tanzania	39,384,223
7	Sudan	39,379,358
8	Kenya	36,913,721
9	Morocco	33,757,175
10	Algeria	33,333,216
11	Uganda	30,262,610
12	Ghana	22,931,299
13	Mozambique	20,905,585
14	Madagascar	19,448,815
15	Cameroon	18,060,382
16	Côte d'Ivoire	18,013,409
17	Burkina Faso	14,326,203
18	Malawi	13,603,181
19	Niger	12,894,865
20	Senegal	12,521,851
21	Zimbabwe	12,311,143
22	Angola	12,263,596
23	Mali	11,995,402
24	Zambia	11,477,447
25	Tunisia	10,276,158
26	Guinea	9,947,814
27	Rwanda	9,907,509
28	Chad	9,885,661
29	Somalia	9,118,773
30	Burundi	8,390,505
31	Benin	8,078,314
32	Sierra Leone	6,144,562
33	Libya	6,036,914
34	Togo	5,701,579
35	Eritrea	4,906,585
36	Central African Republic	4,369,038
37	Congo-Brazzaville	3,800,610
38	Mauritania	3,270,065
39	Liberia	3,195,931
40	Lesotho	2,125,262
41	Namibia	2,055,080
42	Botswana	1,815,508
43	Gambia	1,688,359
44	Guinea-Bissau	1,472,780
45	Gabon	1,454,867
46	Mauritius	1,250,882
47	Swaziland	1,133,066
48	Comoros	711,417
49	Equatorial Guinea	551,201
50	Djibouti	496,374
51	Cape Verde	423,613
52	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	382,617
53	São Tomé and Príncipe	199,579
54	Seychelles	81,895

July 2007 estimates

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