AFRICA POPULATION

• World: 6302
• China: 1287
• India: 1050
• Africa: 856
• Sub-Saharan Africa: 701
• Western Europe: 393
• USA: 290
• Russia: 144
• Nigeria: 134
• Egypt: 75
• Ethiopia: 67
• Congo (Kinshasa): 57
• South Africa: 43
  Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2003, est.
   

There are over: 800 ethnic groups in Africa This includes Asians, Europeans, and Arabs, who have permanently settled there - for centuries in some cases.

Approximately 255 million people live in West Africa and 225 million in East Africa, the two most populous of Africa’s five regions, almost as many as in the entire U.S. Central Africa, the least populous, has over 100 million people. Southern Africa and North Africa each have about 150 million.