AFRICAN COUNTRIES, THEIR POPULATIONS AND DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

	Country (or dependent territory)	July 1, 2013 projection[1]	% of pop.	Average relative annual growth (%)[2]	Average absolute annual growth [3]	Estimated doubling time (Years)[4]	Alternative figure
	Nigeria	177,096,000	16.10	3.24	5,551,000	22	164,291,827
	Ethiopia	86,614,000	7.88	2.67	2,253,000	26	86,613,986
	Egypt	84,605,000	7.69	2.29	1,893,000	31	83,661,000
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	74,618,000	6.78	3.23	2,334,000	22	71,971,524
	South Africa	52,982,000	4.82	1.35	704,000	52	52,981,991
	Tanzania	45,950,000	4.18	2.69	1,204,000	26	44,928,923
	Kenya	43,291,000	3.94	3.01	1,266,000	23	38,610,097
	Algeria	38,295,000	3.48	2.11	792,000	33	37,900,000
	Uganda	35,363,000	3.22	3.61	1,232,000	20	34,131,400
	Sudan	35,150,000	3.20	2.52	863,000	28	30,894,000
	Morocco	32,950,000	3.00	1.08	353,000	64	33,027,600
	Ghana	26,441,000	2.40	2.56	659,000	27	24,658,823
	Mozambique	24,491,000	2.23	3.33	790,000	21	23,700,715
	Ivory Coast	23,919,000	2.17	3.09	717,000	23	23,202,000
	Madagascar	21,852,000	1.99	2.75	585,000	26	20,696,070
	Angola	21,256,000	1.93	3.14	647,000	22	20,609,294
	Cameroon	20,930,000	1.90	2.66	543,000	26	20,386,799
	Niger	17,493,000	1.59	3.85	649,000	18	17,129,076
	Burkina Faso	17,323,000	1.58	3.28	550,000	21	17,322,796
	Mali	16,678,000	1.52	3.29	532,000	21	14,528,662
	Malawi	15,316,000	1.39	3.17	470,000	22	14,388,600
	Zambia	14,129,000	1.28	2.85	392,000	25	13,092,666
	Senegal	13,567,000	1.23	3.06	403,000	23	13,567,338
	Zimbabwe	13,098,000	1.19	1.10	142,000	64	12,973,808
	Chad	12,948,000	1.18	3.64	455,000	19	11,274,106
	Guinea	11,861,000	1.08	3.09	356,000	23	10,824,200
	Tunisia	10,889,000	0.99	1.03	111,000	68	10,777,500
	Rwanda	10,780,000	0.98	2.63	276,000	27	10,537,222
	South Sudan	10,334,000	0.94	4.40	436,000	16	8,260,490
	Benin	9,742,000	0.89	3.24	306,000	22	9,204,018
	Somalia	9,662,000	0.88	1.17	112,000	59	9,331,000
	Burundi	9,023,000	0.82	2.36	208,000	30	8,053,574
	Togo	6,675,000	0.61	2.88	187,000	24	6,191,155
	Libya	6,323,000	0.57	1.56	97,000	45	6,433,092
	Sierra Leone	5,823,000	0.53	1.84	105,000	38	5,565,626
	Central African Republic	5,217,000	0.47	3.10	157,000	23	4,956,213
	Eritrea	4,980,000	0.45	4.05	194,000	17	5,386,694
	Republic of the Congo	4,525,000	0.41	3.31	145,000	21	3,697,490
	Liberia	3,881,000	0.35	2.10	80,000	33	3,476,608
	Mauritania	3,461,000	0.31	2.58	87,000	27	3,461,041
	Gabon	2,204,000	0.20	3.96	84,000	18	1,981,032
	Namibia	2,170,000	0.20	1.45	31,000	48	2,113,077
	Botswana	2,096,000	0.19	1.85	38,000	38	2,024,904
	Lesotho	1,887,000	0.17	0.05	1,000	1,308	1,911,087
	Equatorial Guinea	1,837,000	0.17	4.20	74,000	17	1,622,000
	Gambia	1,794,000	0.16	2.75	48,000	26	1,713,267
	Guinea-Bissau	1,699,000	0.15	2.60	43,000	27	1,520,830
	Mauritius	1,273,000	0.12	0.63	8,000	110	1,257,900
	Swaziland	1,077,000	0.10	0.94	10,000	74	1,018,449
	Djibouti	912,000	0.08	2.70	24,000	26	864,618
	Réunion (France)	862,000	0.08	1.41	12,000	49	821,136
	Comoros	743,000	0.07	2.62	19,000	27	724,300
	Western Sahara[5]	650,000	0.06	5.18	32,000	14	552,931
	Cape Verde	511,000	0.05	1.39	7,000	50	491,875
	Mayotte (France)	217,000	0.02	2.36	5,000	30	212,600
	São Tomé and Príncipe	194,000	0.02	3.19	6,000	22	187,356
	Seychelles	94,000	0.01	1.08	1,000	65	90,945
	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)	4,000	0.00	0.00	0	-	4,255
	Total	1,099,755,000	100.00	2.74	29,279,000	26

FALLEN HEROES: African Leaders Whose Assassinations Disarrayed the Continent and Benefitted Foreign Interests

by Janvier T. Chando