Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Gambia

With life expectancy at 62, Gambia’s population figure is at 2.2 million, an increase from 1.0 million in 1994. From 2010 to 2019, growth rate was at an average of 3.1 percent, while fertility rate among women at the moment is 5.2 percent, an almost 1 percent drop from 1969’s 6.0 percent figure. The country’s population aged between 10 and 24 years are 33 percent while 53 percent are between 15 and 64 years.

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