Africa’s top 10 countries with the fastest growing populations

Democratic Republic of Congo

With life expectancy at 61, DRC’s population figure is 86.7 million, having doubled from 40.3 million in 1994. The population grew at an average of 3.3 percent from 2010 to 2019, while the fertility rate among women currently is 5.8 percent. In 1969, the figure was 6.2 percent. Those aged between 10 and 24 years are 32 percent while 51 percent are between 15 and 64 years.

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