Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Uganda

Having a population figure of 45.7 million, Uganda grew at an average of 3.3 percent, from 2010 to 2019. This is a huge growth rate from 1994 when its population figure was 19.9 per cent. With life expectancy at 61, the fertility rate among women is 5.3 per cent, a drop from 7.1 per cent in 1969. 34 per cent of the country’s population figure are aged between 10 and 24 years, while 51 per cent are between 15 and 64 years.

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