Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Mali

From 9.4 million population figure in 1994 to 19.7 million in 2019, Mali’s growth rate was at an average of 3.0 percent – from 2010 to 2019. Life expectancy is at 59, while the fertility rate among women is 5.8 percent, a drop from 7.1 percent in 1969. 33 percent of the country’s population figure are aged between 10 and 24 years, and 50 percent are between 15 and 64 years.

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