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When calculating the suicide rate, two estimated mortality rates from suicide are given: age-standardised and crude. The crude suicide rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year, divided by the population and multiplied by 100,000. The age-standardised rate adjusts for differences in the age dis...

Between 2022 and 2050,sub-Saharan Africa’s population is expected to almost double, surpassing 2 billion inhabitants by the late 2040s. With average fertility levels remaining close to 3 births per woman in 2050, the region is projected to account for more than half of the growth of the world’s ...

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 ...

The most populous African country is Nigeria, estimated at more than 211 million inhabitants as of 2021. ...

Overall, women have a higher life expectancy than men in Africa. Female life expectancy in North Africa/Middle East is the highest at 76, followed by East Africa and Southern Africa (67) and Western and Central Africa (60). The three African countries with the lowest life expectancy for women a...

In the 2022/23 financial year, the government allocated KSh7.9 billion for orphans and vulnerable children, KSh17.5 billion for cash transfers to elderly persons, KSh1.2 billion in cash transfers to persons with severe disabilities and KSh5.1 billion for the hunger safety net programme. Others were ...

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 2019 were Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. The ma...

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. More recent data from the World Bank put Kenya’s internet penetration rate at 30% of the total population (roughly 16 million people) ...

Yes. With about 117 million people (2021), Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa after Nigeria. ...