Live population of Africa | Demographics Of Africa

According to official figures released by the United Nations and World Bank Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, the population of African Continent as of 2023 Apr 2 was 1,399,336,806

According to the 2022 Census, African Continent's share of the world population is 17.199%

African Continent population (2022) and previous data

Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	Death-rate
Year	Over-all-population	Male	Female	Rural-population	Density- /km2	fertility-rate /women	M	F
2020	1,340,598,113	669,878,340	670,719,773	764,884,396	45.21	1.22	28,755,549	25,584,535
2015	1,182,438,803	590,281,019	592,157,784	702,838,816	39.88	4.43	27,286,743	24,549,714
2010	1,039,304,030	518,252,648	521,051,382	640,859,299	35.05	4.73	27,205,522	24,878,176
2005	916,154,285	456,648,127	459,506,158	583,724,116	30.90	4.89	28,219,602	26,199,152
2000	810,984,232	404,163,048	406,821,184	531,568,392	27.35	5.07	29,079,496	26,860,660
1995	717,270,112	357,597,604	359,672,508	481,097,777	24.19	5.35	27,683,484	25,259,111
1990	630,349,685	314,377,324	315,972,361	434,455,748	21.26	5.72	25,384,443	23,045,616
1985	548,626,140	273,685,814	274,940,326	392,074,281	18.50	6.18	22,469,784	20,499,202
1980	476,386,225	237,700,047	238,686,178	351,396,255	16.06	6.50	20,982,788	19,121,439
1975	414,674,676	206,736,229	207,938,447	314,699,085	13.98	6.63	19,856,426	18,085,736
1970	363,447,593	181,078,481	182,369,112	283,821,559	12.25	6.70	18,531,108	17,263,136
1965	320,147,295	159,347,724	160,799,571	256,122,057	10.79	6.70	17,789,328.16	16,492,003
1960	283,361,171	141,012,754	142,348,417	232,133,581	9.55	6.69	17,168,401	15,821,152
1955	252,748,917	125,613,462	127,135,455	212,575,808	8.52	6.62	15,284,139	15,456,663
1950	227,794,137	113,209,034	114,585,103	196,011,057	7.68	6.57	16,565,218	15,308,824