UN country group · UN WPP 2024

LLDC: Africa population

LLDC: Africa population now

411,682,462

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 378,093,335

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 409.170 million
Median age: 19.0
Aged 65+: 2.9%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 100,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

LLDC: Africa in numbers

378,093,335 people lived in LLDC: Africa in mid-2023: 4.7% of the world's people. That is 6.9 times its 1950 population of 55.1 million.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 1.06 billion.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 18.5 in 1950 and 18.4 in 2023; the projection has 36.8 in 2100. 2.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 15.6% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Population, mid-2023: 378,093,335
Share of the world, 2023: 4.7%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +2.78% · +10,220,377 people
Births, 2023: 12,828,480
Deaths, 2023: 2,563,338
Net migration, 2023: +614,177
Children per woman, 2023: 4.35
Median age, 2023: 18.4 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 64.5 years
Population, mid-1950: 55,125,439
Projected, mid-2050: 670,328,746
Projected, mid-2100: 1,060,190,924

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: LLDC: Africa, 1950–2100

LLDC: Africa: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	54,557,284	2,689,751	1,521,829	6.64	36.4
1951	estimate	55,693,593	2,748,496	1,529,420	6.64	36.8
1952	estimate	56,875,661	2,810,375	1,541,393	6.66	37.1
1953	estimate	58,094,928	2,873,952	1,554,458	6.67	37.5
1954	estimate	59,342,359	2,935,051	1,567,639	6.68	37.9
1955	estimate	60,638,046	2,997,388	1,581,258	6.70	38.2
1956	estimate	61,978,134	3,062,200	1,595,415	6.71	38.6
1957	estimate	63,365,638	3,129,575	1,735,941	6.73	36.9
1958	estimate	64,677,394	3,199,239	1,756,067	6.75	37.1
1959	estimate	66,010,855	3,273,303	1,642,434	6.77	39.5
1960	estimate	67,561,638	3,351,410	1,661,153	6.79	39.8
1961	estimate	69,165,231	3,431,154	1,677,459	6.81	40.3
1962	estimate	70,859,146	3,517,920	1,699,928	6.83	40.6
1963	estimate	72,583,224	3,603,935	1,731,868	6.85	40.7
1964	estimate	74,367,092	3,695,610	1,734,961	6.87	41.4
1965	estimate	76,284,974	3,794,981	1,784,361	6.88	41.3
1966	estimate	78,211,251	3,896,242	1,879,623	6.91	40.6
1967	estimate	80,160,500	4,001,222	1,853,164	6.93	41.6
1968	estimate	82,236,543	4,108,537	1,886,827	6.95	41.9
1969	estimate	84,382,218	4,215,947	1,930,135	6.95	42.0
1970	estimate	86,547,142	4,333,076	1,965,798	6.98	42.2
1971	estimate	88,765,323	4,451,295	1,999,562	7.00	42.4
1972	estimate	91,022,288	4,574,768	2,129,176	7.04	41.3
1973	estimate	93,141,064	4,684,793	2,093,543	7.07	42.5
1974	estimate	95,549,803	4,814,518	2,174,388	7.09	42.3
1975	estimate	98,029,103	4,955,727	2,217,240	7.13	42.5
1976	estimate	100,521,160	5,087,142	2,184,187	7.15	43.5
1977	estimate	103,154,886	5,226,280	2,222,947	7.18	43.7
1978	estimate	105,372,487	5,344,535	2,253,989	7.20	44.0
1979	estimate	107,941,054	5,481,822	2,265,435	7.21	44.5
1980	estimate	110,146,017	5,592,539	2,283,941	7.23	44.9
1981	estimate	112,675,859	5,717,622	2,298,761	7.23	45.2
1982	estimate	116,501,414	5,899,189	2,341,911	7.22	45.6
1983	estimate	120,250,969	6,085,166	2,667,198	7.20	43.0
1984	estimate	123,587,977	6,242,513	2,713,638	7.17	43.2
1985	estimate	126,973,852	6,397,765	2,710,879	7.14	43.9
1986	estimate	130,591,013	6,553,564	2,748,074	7.11	44.2
1987	estimate	134,421,150	6,716,536	2,629,336	7.07	45.7
1988	estimate	138,811,326	6,892,007	2,855,519	7.01	44.7
1989	estimate	143,109,460	7,066,601	2,713,039	6.95	46.4
1990	estimate	147,556,983	7,249,003	2,814,519	6.89	46.1
1991	estimate	152,074,529	7,422,929	2,839,395	6.83	46.5
1992	estimate	157,399,280	7,652,245	2,971,397	6.79	46.0
1993	estimate	162,271,359	7,829,359	3,072,673	6.74	45.7
1994	estimate	165,916,164	7,902,135	3,840,381	6.70	39.5
1995	estimate	167,686,724	7,993,095	3,010,916	6.66	46.9
1996	estimate	172,761,654	8,192,075	3,058,200	6.60	47.0
1997	estimate	178,843,023	8,415,002	3,109,015	6.55	47.3
1998	estimate	184,151,246	8,597,700	3,271,168	6.50	46.5
1999	estimate	189,312,124	8,806,010	3,123,543	6.44	48.2
2000	estimate	194,703,325	8,979,669	3,091,064	6.39	49.1
2001	estimate	200,129,372	9,166,380	3,094,308	6.33	49.5
2002	estimate	205,808,674	9,348,851	3,064,621	6.28	50.4
2003	estimate	211,880,909	9,534,607	3,030,320	6.22	51.2
2004	estimate	218,315,730	9,755,525	2,989,088	6.15	52.1
2005	estimate	224,944,604	9,975,171	2,960,102	6.09	52.9
2006	estimate	231,697,097	10,148,181	2,916,938	6.00	53.8
2007	estimate	238,750,816	10,321,889	2,863,801	5.91	54.7
2008	estimate	246,009,237	10,475,016	2,807,865	5.81	55.6
2009	estimate	253,547,434	10,626,349	3,022,576	5.71	54.5
2010	estimate	261,108,919	10,797,596	2,714,541	5.59	57.3
2011	estimate	269,161,048	10,950,796	2,666,608	5.47	58.2
2012	estimate	277,269,373	11,052,381	2,627,359	5.35	59.0
2013	estimate	285,309,098	11,145,266	2,605,451	5.22	59.6
2014	estimate	293,460,837	11,286,886	2,703,304	5.12	59.4
2015	estimate	301,140,970	11,405,095	2,694,227	5.03	59.9
2016	estimate	309,089,185	11,540,314	2,708,606	4.94	60.2
2017	estimate	317,177,671	11,680,448	2,717,831	4.86	60.6
2018	estimate	325,315,423	11,845,943	2,559,140	4.78	62.1
2019	estimate	334,668,081	12,067,122	2,624,870	4.70	62.2
2020	estimate	343,996,331	12,257,500	2,582,630	4.61	62.9
2021	estimate	353,667,930	12,452,340	2,748,283	4.52	62.1
2022	estimate	363,092,227	12,647,207	2,804,986	4.44	62.5
2023	estimate	372,653,688	12,828,480	2,563,338	4.35	64.5
2024	estimate	383,532,982	13,059,029	2,613,104	4.28	64.7
2025	projection	393,903,457	13,206,988	2,654,230	4.18	64.9
2026	projection	404,047,951	13,345,695	2,691,921	4.10	65.1
2027	projection	414,292,792	13,480,570	2,729,755	4.02	65.3
2028	projection	424,774,624	13,616,081	2,770,599	3.94	65.6
2029	projection	435,311,321	13,754,937	2,812,899	3.86	65.8
2030	projection	445,933,985	13,876,068	2,855,863	3.79	66.0
2031	projection	456,617,319	13,989,593	2,900,917	3.72	66.2
2032	projection	467,395,175	14,087,696	2,947,168	3.65	66.4
2033	projection	478,173,070	14,191,624	2,993,159	3.58	66.6
2034	projection	488,999,992	14,269,277	3,040,556	3.52	66.8
2035	projection	499,874,216	14,352,855	3,090,000	3.46	66.9
2036	projection	510,847,663	14,430,887	3,141,887	3.40	67.1
2037	projection	521,793,460	14,510,718	3,194,254	3.34	67.3
2038	projection	532,788,650	14,591,796	3,249,150	3.29	67.5
2039	projection	543,780,840	14,663,235	3,305,435	3.23	67.7
2040	projection	554,807,737	14,743,175	3,363,618	3.18	67.9
2041	projection	565,831,503	14,825,687	3,424,193	3.14	68.0
2042	projection	576,874,220	14,912,443	3,486,672	3.09	68.2
2043	projection	587,913,844	14,991,433	3,551,711	3.05	68.4
2044	projection	599,023,856	15,066,040	3,620,574	3.01	68.5
2045	projection	610,070,747	15,133,636	3,689,520	2.97	68.7
2046	projection	621,093,009	15,189,250	3,760,784	2.93	68.9
2047	projection	632,055,065	15,238,825	3,833,729	2.89	69.0
2048	projection	643,061,243	15,299,431	3,909,248	2.86	69.2
2049	projection	654,023,673	15,349,680	3,987,316	2.82	69.4
2050	projection	664,922,330	15,382,604	4,066,252	2.79	69.5
2051	projection	675,735,163	15,428,709	4,146,111	2.76	69.7
2052	projection	686,623,788	15,465,014	4,229,912	2.72	69.9
2053	projection	697,405,026	15,497,197	4,315,460	2.69	70.0
2054	projection	708,108,121	15,523,601	4,403,177	2.66	70.2
2055	projection	718,720,941	15,540,139	4,493,742	2.63	70.3
2056	projection	729,248,946	15,559,938	4,586,249	2.61	70.5
2057	projection	739,738,035	15,576,251	4,679,065	2.58	70.6
2058	projection	750,081,657	15,585,488	4,773,862	2.56	70.8
2059	projection	760,355,874	15,591,677	4,870,951	2.53	71.0
2060	projection	770,647,815	15,592,034	4,968,509	2.50	71.1
2061	projection	780,792,354	15,595,674	5,070,049	2.48	71.3
2062	projection	790,909,338	15,596,009	5,174,711	2.46	71.4
2063	projection	800,783,330	15,590,033	5,281,083	2.44	71.6
2064	projection	810,554,992	15,577,927	5,386,743	2.42	71.7
2065	projection	820,227,153	15,567,793	5,495,867	2.40	71.9
2066	projection	829,788,721	15,560,993	5,607,627	2.38	72.0
2067	projection	839,188,689	15,542,617	5,721,038	2.36	72.2
2068	projection	848,559,593	15,525,980	5,835,621	2.34	72.4
2069	projection	857,736,797	15,510,002	5,952,844	2.32	72.5
2070	projection	866,730,956	15,491,962	6,072,960	2.31	72.7
2071	projection	875,618,970	15,472,571	6,194,611	2.29	72.8
2072	projection	884,353,181	15,450,127	6,320,636	2.27	73.0
2073	projection	893,009,489	15,429,610	6,448,329	2.26	73.1
2074	projection	901,447,548	15,399,021	6,579,661	2.24	73.3
2075	projection	909,772,184	15,368,361	6,709,774	2.23	73.4
2076	projection	917,977,699	15,340,718	6,845,530	2.21	73.5
2077	projection	925,967,500	15,303,254	6,981,877	2.20	73.7
2078	projection	933,862,052	15,262,721	7,118,699	2.18	73.8
2079	projection	941,510,377	15,220,021	7,256,577	2.17	74.0
2080	projection	948,902,414	15,179,459	7,395,507	2.16	74.1
2081	projection	956,124,517	15,139,300	7,536,414	2.15	74.2
2082	projection	963,225,260	15,102,513	7,677,014	2.13	74.4
2083	projection	970,154,576	15,053,636	7,818,938	2.12	74.5
2084	projection	976,849,379	15,005,707	7,961,801	2.11	74.6
2085	projection	983,305,927	14,953,118	8,104,017	2.10	74.8
2086	projection	989,620,183	14,901,878	8,245,668	2.09	74.9
2087	projection	995,786,845	14,852,026	8,383,874	2.08	75.0
2088	projection	1,001,737,932	14,805,012	8,521,202	2.07	75.2
2089	projection	1,007,386,137	14,750,621	8,655,983	2.06	75.3
2090	projection	1,012,959,720	14,696,527	8,789,228	2.05	75.5
2091	projection	1,018,332,447	14,647,965	8,922,830	2.04	75.6
2092	projection	1,023,430,289	14,591,321	9,051,369	2.03	75.7
2093	projection	1,028,374,355	14,533,408	9,179,504	2.02	75.8
2094	projection	1,033,154,352	14,473,832	9,305,825	2.02	76.0
2095	projection	1,037,780,936	14,418,108	9,429,244	2.01	76.1
2096	projection	1,042,203,300	14,362,322	9,549,435	2.00	76.2
2097	projection	1,046,552,903	14,302,876	9,671,647	1.99	76.4
2098	projection	1,050,700,730	14,239,982	9,790,166	1.98	76.5
2099	projection	1,054,615,563	14,183,251	9,903,904	1.98	76.6
2100	projection	1,058,360,308	14,122,428	10,016,569	1.97	76.8

AGG · membership

What LLDC: Africa is

LLDC: Africa is one of the UN's analytical groupings. This dataset carries the group's totals, not its membership, so its countries are not listed here.

Show the numbers: LLDC: Africa, mid-2026, by single year of age

LLDC: Africa: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	6,514,040	6,319,080
1	6,358,150	6,180,700
2	6,224,130	6,052,480
3	6,089,440	5,922,640
4	5,962,740	5,803,220
5	5,839,440	5,687,440
6	5,719,110	5,573,440
7	5,594,620	5,456,840
8	5,470,320	5,341,340
9	5,358,670	5,237,780
10	5,259,320	5,145,040
11	5,169,550	5,060,540
12	5,084,600	4,979,730
13	5,010,080	4,910,120
14	4,941,780	4,846,530
15	4,855,500	4,765,060
16	4,746,450	4,662,960
17	4,636,000	4,560,670
18	4,532,710	4,465,560
19	4,423,540	4,365,070
20	4,305,610	4,257,020
21	4,171,780	4,135,170
22	4,022,320	3,998,380
23	3,874,650	3,861,740
24	3,730,330	3,726,930
25	3,586,280	3,590,020
26	3,448,190	3,456,980
27	3,306,810	3,319,870
28	3,172,040	3,188,450
29	3,055,450	3,075,310
30	2,942,360	2,966,850
31	2,824,990	2,854,970
32	2,722,800	2,758,920
33	2,630,990	2,672,820
34	2,526,060	2,572,990
35	2,422,770	2,475,310
36	2,326,890	2,385,120
37	2,230,210	2,291,980
38	2,139,620	2,201,720
39	2,059,660	2,126,310
40	1,977,090	2,047,770
41	1,890,000	1,959,390
42	1,806,770	1,875,240
43	1,733,670	1,801,350
44	1,671,340	1,739,210
45	1,606,940	1,674,790
46	1,536,940	1,604,570
47	1,463,250	1,532,990
48	1,385,110	1,458,980
49	1,309,040	1,387,210
50	1,234,460	1,319,640
51	1,160,890	1,252,300
52	1,095,320	1,190,280
53	1,039,640	1,140,070
54	987,258	1,093,380
55	936,160	1,046,730
56	887,934	1,001,910
57	842,224	957,802
58	797,810	913,158
59	751,994	866,526
60	707,370	821,135
61	666,318	779,313
62	627,691	739,880
63	590,938	702,040
64	554,137	663,508
65	518,230	625,525
66	483,878	589,036
67	447,665	549,730
68	410,112	508,046
69	375,916	469,872
70	345,990	436,788
71	317,653	405,622
72	289,420	374,250
73	261,491	342,947
74	234,477	312,462
75	208,523	282,942
76	187,542	258,224
77	166,298	232,282
78	145,377	207,986
79	127,167	186,710
80	108,710	163,298
81	91,686	140,992
82	76,385	120,333
83	62,906	101,724
84	51,246	85,268
85	41,226	70,724
86	32,688	57,969
87	25,491	46,920
88	19,487	37,409
89	14,516	29,264
90	10,536	22,490
91	7,496	17,060
92	5,248	12,787
93	3,608	9,442
94	2,430	6,852
95	1,608	4,886
96	1,044	3,422
97	669	2,354
98	420	1,588
99	258	1,043
100+	370	1,800

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

LLDC: Africa, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in LLDC: Africa

In LLDC: Africa the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 208,693,000 of them.

100 aged 15–64

76 children

5 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in LLDC: Africa, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 LLDC: Africa loses 45,558 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 22,512 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 947,292 (1996); its biggest loss, 2,291,159 (1994).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in LLDC: Africa

Of every 100 babies born in LLDC: Africa in 2023, 16 had a mother under 20, 70 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 14 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 17 under 20 and 18 aged 35 or older.

1950
17 · 65 · 18

2023
16 · 70 · 14

2050 · projected
12 · 73 · 15

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 12,828,480
Average age when women have a baby: 28.9 years; 29.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 95; 148 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in LLDC: Africa by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	49,782	97,798	116,164	55,422	20,686	3,812
15–19	416,262	873,438	1,540,954	2,020,447	1,826,950	758,732
20–24	676,347	1,241,293	2,387,709	3,639,665	4,143,705	2,727,534
25–29	604,290	1,057,645	1,987,954	3,081,317	4,026,361	4,091,541
30–34	462,578	802,669	1,495,753	2,185,617	3,012,709	3,834,512
35–39	299,506	544,365	929,000	1,265,491	1,668,801	2,035,049
40–44	142,435	271,870	420,664	486,580	590,275	598,963
45–49	36,661	63,542	96,838	90,234	89,404	70,052
50–54	1,890	3,107	4,633	3,707	3,713	2,233
All babies	2,689,751	4,955,727	8,979,669	12,828,480	15,382,604	14,122,428

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

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