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According to the most recent figures by the World Bank, Sudanese women had the highest unemployment rate in Africa in 2020 at 31.2%, followed by women in South Africa with an unemployment rate of 31.1%, Gabon with 29.8%, Eswatini with 27.4% and Botswana with 25.7%. ...

According to the most recent statistics by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the five African countries that were the top recipients of official development assistance in 2017 were Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The main dono...

Niger has the world’s youngest population. Half of Niger’s population is 14 or younger, and the median age is 15. ...

When adjusted for different age distributions in different populations, Lesotho has the highest suicide rate in Africa. This age-standardised rate was estimated at 28.9 suicides per 100,000 people in 2016. The estimate (the most recent available at the time of publication) is from the World Health O...

Over the past three decades, the population of African countries grew at an average annual rate of 2.6%, compared with the global average rate of 1.5%. ...

There are several global indexes that measure some level of ethnic and cultural diversity. Stanford research from 2003 by James Fearon provides ethnic and cultural diversity data by country. Overall, Africa's diversity rankings are much higher than that of other continents. The top scorers in the Fe...

Overall, women have a higher life expectancy than men in Africa for all regions. Female life expectancy in North Africa is the highest at 72.4, followed by East Africa (62.2), Southern Africa (59) and Central Africa (57). West Africa has the lowest average life expectancy of all regions, at 55.6. Th...

There is little aggregated data on religious beliefs on the continent. The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) provides regional aggregates derived from UN and World Bank data. Christianity is the main religion in three African regions: East Africa (66%), Southern Africa (82%), and Central ...

Nigeria has the largest population in Africa with 190,886,311 people in 2017, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Population Division. ...