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Rank Country Annual growth (%) 1 South Sudan 4.78 2 Angola 3.34 3 Malawi 2.28 4 Burundi 3.63 5 Uganda 3.27 6 Niger 3.63 7 Mali 2.95 8 Burkina Faso 2.53 9 Zambia 2.90 10 Ethiopia
Burkina Faso has a young age structure – the result of declining mortality combined with steady high fertility – and continues to experience rapid population growth, which is putting increasing pressure on the country's limited arable land. More than 65% of the population is under the age of 25, and the population is growing at 3% annually.
This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, also sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [1]
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods. The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history.
(In 2018, several governments were warning their citizens not to travel into the northern part of the country and into several provinces in the East Region.) [44] [45] The CIA report also states that "Burkina Faso's high population growth, recurring drought, pervasive and perennial food insecurity, and limited natural resources result in poor ...
One of the worst massacres in Burkina Faso's history has provoked a fierce public outcry from victims' relatives and religious leaders, piling pressure on the ruling junta of a country where ...
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
Stunted growth as a result of food insecurity is a severe problem in Burkina Faso, affecting at least a third of the population from 2008 to 2012. [211] Additionally, stunted children, on average, tend to complete less school than children with normal growth development, [ 210 ] further contributing to the low levels of education of the Burkina ...