Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Equatorial Guinea

With a population of 1.4 million, the country’s growth rate, from 2010 to 2019, was at an average of 4 percent, the highest on the continent. The fertility rate among women is 4.4 percent, a drop from 5.8 percent in 1969. The country’s population aged between 10 and 24 years are 29 percent while 60 percent are between 15 and 64 years. Life expectancy in Equatorial Guinea is 59.

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