Western Africa Population Pyramid 2025

Western Africa
2025
Population: 466,532,788

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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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Western Africa in 2025

In 2025, Western Africa had a total population of 466,532,788 people. That is 26.9% more than in 2015, when the population stood at 367,500,500. With a median age of 19.2 years, Western Africa had a youth dependency ratio of 72.0 and an old-age dependency ratio of 5.4 per 100 people of working age. This is an expansive pyramid — each cohort of children is larger than the one above it, the signature of high birth rates and rapid growth.

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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