List of African countries by population

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

Pos	Country	Population
1	Nigeria	128,771,988
2	Egypt	77,505,756
3	Ethiopia	73,053,286
4	Congo-Kinshasa	60,085,804
5	South Africa	44,344,136
6	Sudan	40,187,486
7	Tanzania	36,766,356
8	Kenya	33,829,590
9	Morocco	32,725,847
10	Algeria	32,531,853
11	Uganda	27,269,482
12	Ghana	21,029,853
13	Mozambique	19,406,703
14	Madagascar	18,040,341
15	Côte d'Ivoire	17,298,040
16	Cameroon	16,380,005
17	Burkina Faso	13,925,313
18	Zimbabwe	12,746,990
19	Mali	12,291,529
20	Malawi	12,158,924
21	Niger	11,665,937
22	Zambia	11,261,795
23	Angola	11,190,786
24	Senegal	11,126,832
25	Tunisia	10,074,951
26	Chad	9,826,419
27	Guinea	9,467,866
28	Somalia	8,591,629
29	Rwanda	8,440,820
30	Benin	7,460,025
31	Burundi	6,370,609
32	Sierra Leone	6,017,643
33	Libya	5,765,563
34	Togo	5,681,519
35	Eritrea	4,561,599
36	Central African Republic	3,799,897
37	Liberia	3,482,211
38	Mauritania	3,086,859
39	Congo-Brazzaville	3,039,126
40	Namibia	2,030,692
41	Lesotho	1,867,035
42	Botswana	1,640,115
43	Gambia	1,593,256
44	Guinea-Bissau	1,416,027
45	Gabon	1,389,201
46	Mauritius	1,230,602
47	Swaziland	1,173,900
48	Comoros	671,247
49	Equatorial Guinea	535,881
50	Djibouti	476,703
51	Cape Verde	418,224
52	Western Sahara (SADR)	273,008
53	São Tomé and Príncipe	187,410
54	Seychelles	81,188

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• This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.