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Africa-Press – Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>TANZANIA :<\/b> TANZANIA has featured in a list of top ten African countries with the largest population, according to a latest World Population Review report.<\/p>\n

According to Tanzania\u2019s 2022 Population and Housing Census, the East African member state\u2019s population stands at 61.7 million.<\/p>\n

Out of the said figure, females are 31,687,990 and males 30,053,130.<\/p>\n

According to the study, Nigeria occupies number one with 224,275,240 and it is ranked number six globally followed by Ethiopia with 126,809,429 people.<\/p>\n

Egypt is ranked third place with 112,870,951people followed by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the fourth place with 102,556,950 populations.<\/p>\n

On the other side, South Africa is ranked at sixth position with 60,462,959 people followed by Kenya (55,197,515), Uganda (48,700,835), Sudan (48,219,383) and Algeria (45,667,552).<\/p>\n

The dossier states: \u201cMore than half of the world\u2019s predicted population expansion between now and 2050 will come from just eight nations, five of which are African: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Tanzania.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the most recent United Nations projections, Africa\u2019s current population is 1,463,378,937 as of Tuesday, August 1, 2023.<\/p>\n

Africa\u2019s population is 17.89 per cent of the total world population.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Tanzania<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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