Africa is the world’s second largest and second-most populous continent after Asia in both cases. It contains 54 countries.
Africa is the world’s second largest and second-most populous continent after Asia in both cases.
At about 30.3 million km2 including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of earth’s total surface area and 20% of its land area.
With 1.4 billion people, it accounts for around 18% of the world’s human population.
Africa contains 54 countries.
LIST OF AFRICA COUNTRIES BY POPULATION
| Nigeria | 218,839,589 |
| Ethiopia | 124,334,404 |
| Egypt | 108,000,000 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 95,600,000 |
| Tanzania | 63,200,000 |
| South Africa | 60,800,000 |
| Kenya | 54,900,000 |
| Sudan | 46,268,269 |
| Algeria | 45,300,000 |
| Uganda | 42,885,900 |
| Morocco | 37,034,729 |
| Angola | 35,097,671 |
| Mozambique | 31,600,000 |
| Ghana | 31,072,940 |
| Cameroon | 28,524,175 |
| Madagascar | 28,427,328 |
| Ivory Coast | 27,087,732 |
| Niger | 24,112,753 |
| Burkina Faso | 21,500,000 |
| Mali | 20,856,000 |
| Malawi | 20,100,000 |
| Zambia | 19,400,000 |
| Senegal | 17,200,000 |
| Chad | 16,818,391 |
| Somalia | 15,800,000 |
| Zimbabwe | 15,790,716 |
| South Sudan | 13,249,924 |
| Rwanda | 12,955,768 |
| Guinea | 12,907,395 |
| Benin | 12,506,347 |
| Burundi | 12,500,000 |
| Tunisia | 11,746,695 |
| Sierra Leone | 8,297,882 |
| Togo | 7,886,000 |
| Libya | 6,959,000 |
| Republic of the Congo | 5,657,000 |
| Central African Republic | 5,600,000 |
| Liberia | 4,661,010 |
| Mauritania | 4,200,000 |
| Eritrea | 3,656,663 |
| Namibia | 2,550,226 |
| Gambia | 2,487,000 |
| Botswana | 2,410,338 |
| Gabon | 2,233,272 |
| Lesotho | 2,100,000 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1,600,000 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1,505,588 |
| Mauritius | 1,266,334 |
| Eswatini | 1,100,000 |
| Djibouti | 976,107 |
| Comoros | 800,000 |
| Cape Verde | 563,198 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 200,000 |
| Seychelles | 99,202 |