Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Burundi

From a 5.9 million population figure in 1994 to 11.6 million in 2019, Burundi’s average growth rate, from 2010 to 2019, was 3.1 percent. Life expectancy at birth is 59 years, while the fertility rate is 5.5 percent, a drop from 7.3 percent in 1969. The country’s population aged between 10 and 24 years are 31 percent while 52 percent are between 15 and 64 years.

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