|
2021 Population
|
Country
|
211,400,708
|
Nigeria
|
117,876,227
|
Ethiopia
|
104,258,327
|
Egypt
|
92,377,993
|
D. R. Congo
|
61,498,437
|
Tanzania
|
60,041,994
|
South Africa
|
54,985,698
|
Kenya
|
47,123,531
|
Uganda
|
44,909,353
|
Sudan
|
44,616,624
|
Algeria
|
37,344,795
|
Morocco
|
33,933,610
|
Angola
|
32,163,047
|
Mozambique
|
31,732,129
|
Ghana
|
28,427,328
|
Madagascar
|
27,224,265
|
Cameroon
|
27,053,629
|
Ivory Coast
|
25,130,817
|
Niger
|
21,497,096
|
Burkina Faso
|
20,855,735
|
Mali
|
19,647,684
|
Malawi
|
18,920,651
|
Zambia
|
17,196,301
|
Senegal
|
16,914,985
|
Chad
|
16,359,504
|
Somalia
|
15,092,171
|
Zimbabwe
|
13,497,244
|
Guinea
|
|
2021 Population
|
Country
|
13,276,513
|
Rwanda
|
12,451,040
|
Benin
|
12,255,433
|
Burundi
|
11,935,766
|
Tunisia
|
11,381,378
|
South Sudan
|
8,478,250
|
Togo
|
8,141,343
|
Sierra Leone
|
6,958,532
|
Libya
|
5,657,013
|
Rep. of the Congo
|
5,180,203
|
Liberia
|
4,919,981
|
Central African Republic
|
4,775,119
|
Mauritania
|
3,601,467
|
Eritrea
|
2,587,344
|
Namibia
|
2,486,945
|
Gambia
|
2,397,241
|
Botswana
|
2,278,825
|
Gabon
|
2,159,079
|
Lesotho
|
2,015,494
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
1,449,896
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
1,273,433
|
Mauritius
|
1,172,362
|
Eswatini
|
1,002,187
|
Djibouti
|
888,451
|
Comoros
|
561,898
|
Cape Verde
|
223,368
|
São Tomé and Príncipe
|
98,908
|
Seychelles
|
|
And Tunisia has more?!?!?!
The order of some of these countries is very surprising. I would have expected South Sudan and Senegal to have more and Burkina Faso to have less.