Facts in Q&A format

For 2022, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) estimates the mid-year population at 60,60 million people. Approximately 51,1% (approximately 30,98 million) of the population is female. ...

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

No. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2019 edition of the Global Competitiveness Report, which measures road connectivity across 141 economies, Ghana was ranked 79th. When compared with the other nine West African countries ranked in the report, Ghana is 6th in the sub-region. ...

The number of indigenous languages spoken in Kenya remains speculative with most sources saying that there are over 40 different indigenous languages and dialects....

Ghana’s projected population for 2020 stood at 30.96 million.

A 2006 analysis of teenage fertility trends found that there were “no grounds to believe that young South African girls are deliberately having children in order to access welfare benefits”.According to the research, teenage childbearing had not increased after the grant was introduced in 1998. ...

An estimated 59.6 million people lived in South Africa in 2020. ...

About 28.6% of the population (17.1 million people) was aged 14 or younger in 2020. See figures for other age groups here. ...

A total of 17.9% of Kenya’s 12 million conventional households reported having access to the internet, according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census. ...