Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Tanzania

From a 29.1 million population figure in 1994 to 60.9 million in 2019, Tanzania’s growth rate was at an average of 3.1 percent from 2010 to 2019. The fertility rate among women dropped from 6.8 percent in 1969 to 4.8 percent in 2019. 32 percent of the country’s population figure are aged between 10 and 24 years, while 52 per cent is between 15 and 64 years.

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