Africa Population Pyramid 2024

Africa
2024
Population: 1,515,140,849

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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Africa in 2024

In 2024, Africa had a total population of 1,515,140,849 people. Over the previous ten years the population grew by 27.4%, up from 1,189,220,339 in 2014. The median age was 20.2 years, and for every 100 people of working age (15–64) there were 68.3 children under 15 and 6.4 people aged 65 or over. The pyramid is expansive: its wide base of young cohorts reflects high fertility and a rapidly growing population.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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