Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Zambia

With life expectancy at 63 years, Zambia’s growth rate was at an average of 3.0 per cent from 2010 to 2019. The fertility rate among women dropped from 7.3 per cent in 1969 to 4.8 per cent in 2019. 34 per cent of the country’s 18.1 million population figure are aged between 10 and 24 years, while 53 percent are between 15 and 64 years.

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