African population increased by 645 million people in 40 years when the population was evaluated in 2015. From those calculations, interesting numbers emerged and the projections are for Africa to grow by 490 million people by 2030, 15 years, and increase by 1.4 billion by 2055 is on track. The World population is 7,677,179,190; Africa's population is 1,345,572,071 as of 2020.

Asia is the most populous continent with about 60% of the world's population, China and India together account for over 35%. while Africa comes in second with over 15% of the earth's populace, and Europe has about 10%, North America 8%, South America almost 6%, and Oceania less than 1%.

Ten largest urban areas in Africa are Cairo Egypt 20,485,000, Lagos Nigeria 13,904,000, Kinshasha Democratic Republic of the Congo 13,743,000, Luanda Angola 8,045,000, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 6,368,000, Khartoum Sudan 5,678,000, Johannesburg South Africa 5,635,000, Alexandria Egypt 5,182,000, Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire 5,059,000, and Addis Ababa Ethiopia 4,592,000.

Angola's capital city population lives in poverty on the outskirts of the city, but in the center, the capital city Luanda is the priciest city for people who are not from Angola or expatriates. In Luanda, Africa's fourth largest city, you must have very deep pockets for housing, transport, clothes, food and entertainment and everything else in-between. Luanda was judged the costliest city due to the expense of goods and security.

The continent of Africa is the world’s second largest based on land area and population just after Asia. Top five largest countries of Africa by land size are Algeria, Congo Democratic Republic of the, Sudan, Libya and Chad but the top five largest populations in Africa are in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.

The top five least populated countries in Africa have .0001% or .01% ranking in the world, they are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Cabo Verde, Sao Tome And Principe and Seychelles.

Africa's population is 1,345,572,071 as of 2020.

Here is Africa total world rank by country in population as of August 2020.

World Rank	African County	Population	World %
6	Nigeria	214,028,302	2.79%
13	Ethiopia	108,113,150	1.41%
14	Egypt	104,124,440	1.36%
15	Democratic Republic of the Congo	101,780,263	1.33%
24	Tanzania	58,552,845	0.76%
26	South Africa	56,463,617	0.74%
27	Kenya	53,527,936	0.70%
31	Sudan	45,561,556	0.59%
34	Uganda	43,252,966	0.56%
35	Algeria	42,972,878	0.56%
40	Morocco	35,561,654	0.46%
43	Angola	32,522,339	0.42%
47	Mozambique	30,098,197	0.39%
49	Ghana	29,340,248	0.38%
51	Cameroon	27,744,989	0.36%
52	Cote D'ivoire	27,481,086	0.36%
53	Madagascar	26,955,737	0.35%
58	Niger	22,772,361	0.30%
60	Malawi	21,196,629	0.28%
61	Burkina Faso	20,835,401	0.27%
62	Mali	19,553,397	0.25%
66	Zambia	17,426,623	0.23%
71	Chad	16,877,357	0.22%
72	Senegal	15,736,368	0.20%
73	Zimbabwe	14,546,314	0.19%
74	Benin	12,864,634	0.17%
75	Rwanda	12,712,431	0.17%
76	Guinea	12,527,440	0.16%
77	Burundi	11,865,821	0.15%
78	Somalia	11,757,124	0.15%
79	Tunisia	11,721,177	0.15%
87	South Sudan	10,561,244	0.14%
99	Togo	8,608,444	0.11%
107	Libya	6,890,535	0.09%
108	Sierra Leone	6,624,933	0.09%
112	Eritrea	6,081,196	0.08%
113	Central African Republic	5,990,855	0.08%
121	Republic of the Congo	5,293,070	0.07%
124	Liberia	5,073,296	0.07%
128	Mauritania	4,005,475	0.05%
142	Namibia	2,630,073	0.03%
144	Botswana	2,317,233	0.03%
145	Gabon	2,230,908	0.03%
146	The Gambia	2,173,999	0.03%
149	Lesotho	1,969,334	0.03%
151	Guinea-Bissau	1,927,104	0.03%
156	Mauritius	1,379,365	0.02%
160	Eswatini	1,104,479	0.01%
162	Djibouti	921,804	0.01%
164	Equatorial Guinea	836,178	0.01%
173	Cabo Verde	583,255	0.01%
184	Sao Tome And Principe	211,122	0.001%
198	Seychelles	95,981	0.0001%

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