There are 54 countries in Africa today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with the current population and subregion (based on the United Nations' official statistics).
| Countries |
Official
figure
(where
available) |
Date of
last figure |
Source |
 Nigeria |
218,625,385 |
2022 |
Worldometers[4] |
 Ethiopia |
121,922,416 |
2022 |
[1] |
 Egypt |
106,981,048 |
2022 |
National population clock |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
96,511,548 |
2022 |
[2] |
 Tanzania |
63,931,876 |
2022 |
Worldometers |
 South Africa |
61,081,076 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Kenya |
56,645,588 |
2022 |
Worldometers |
 Uganda |
49,333,704 |
2022 |
National annual projection |
 Sudan |
46,342,103 |
2022 |
Official population clock |
 Algeria |
45,753,509 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Morocco |
37,945,593 |
2022 |
Worldometers |
 Angola |
35,405,823 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Mozambique |
33,413,232 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Ghana |
32,642,373 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Madagascar |
29,434,823 |
2022 |
UN - World Population Prospects |
 Cameroon |
28,161,144 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Ivory Coast |
27,974,485 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Niger |
26,412,604 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Burkina Faso |
22,313,534 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Mali |
21,691,072 |
2022 |
UN projection |
 Malawi |
20,341,255 |
2022 |
National annual projection |
 Zambia |
19,652,620 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Senegal |
17,826,571 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Chad |
17,589,364 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Somalia |
16,985,528 |
2022 |
UN estimate |
 Zimbabwe |
15,378,243 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Guinea |
14,008,576 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Rwanda |
13,736,863 |
2022 |
Official projection |
 Benin |
12,902,012 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Burundi |
12,767,455 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Tunisia |
12,110,192 |
2022 |
National semi-projection estimate |
 South Sudan |
11,504,110 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Togo |
8,751,274 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Sierra Leone |
8,368,970 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Libya |
7,093,307 |
2022 |
UN projection |
 Republic of the Congo |
5,849,868 |
2022 |
UN projection |
 Liberia |
5,347,243 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Central African Republic |
5,031,186 |
2022 |
[5] |
 Mauritania |
4,949,486 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Eritrea |
3,663,117 |
2022 |
[3] |
 Namibia |
2,651,478 |
2022 |
National projection |
 Gambia |
2,584,004 |
2022 |
UN projection |
 Botswana |
2,466,321 |
2022 |
Annual projection |
 Gabon |
2,353,692 |
2022 |
Official projection |
 Lesotho |
2,182,040 |
2022 |
Census 2016 |
 Guinea-Bissau |
2,081,340 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Equatorial Guinea |
1,518,007 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Mauritius |
1,276,638 |
2022 |
National semi-annual estimate |
 Eswatini |
1,188,479 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Djibouti |
1,022,219 |
2022 |
Official projection |
 Comoros |
914,472 |
2022 |
Census result |
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[6] |
633,212 |
2022 |
[4] |
 Cape Verde |
570,239 |
2022 |
National projection |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
228,950 |
2022 |
Official estimate |
 Seychelles |
99,768 |
2022 |
National estimate |
The proportion of total African population by country
Nigeria (16.38%)
Ethiopia (8.37%)
Egypt (7.65%)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (6.57%)
Tanzania (4.55%)
South Africa (4.47%)
Kenya (3.88%)
Uganda (3.3%)
Other (44.83%)
