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For 2021, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) estimates the mid-year population at 60.14 million people. Approximately 51.1% (approximately 30.75 million) of the population is female. ...

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%. ...

In 2020, Nigeria’s female population was roughly 102 million (101,669,950) or 49.32%. ...

According to the most recent data from the World Bank, in 2020 there were just over 27 million (27,052,773) women in Kenya. ...

In 2016, the first-ever nationally representative study of child maltreatment in South Africa was published, showing that over 40% of young people have experienced some form of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse or neglect at some point in their lives. This study reported on interviews th...

South Africa’s statistics agency, StatsSA, puts the total number of foreigners in South Africa in 2021 at 3.95 million. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), there were 4.2 million foreigners in South Africa in 2019. Related: Unproven that...

Statistics from the Office of the Prime Minister show that Uganda is host to over one million refugees, the majority from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A 2018 report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs puts the number at over 1.8 million. ...

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...

With a population of more than 117 million (2021) people, Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa after Nigeria. ...