- East Africa: 318.8 million
- West Africa: 298.6 million
- North Africa: 209.4 million
- Central Africa: 125.7 million
Source: UNPF, State of the World Report 2009
The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report.
UNPF’s Executive Director Thoraya Obeid said that the annual figures showed the continent’s population had doubled in the last 27 years. Read the rest of this entry »
