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The following table shows the countries of Africa and their population. The population data are estimations for 2023.

Flag	Country	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Density (pers/km²)
Total			29 715 525	1 447 075 945	48,7
Update: 13.03.2023
	Algeria	Algiers	2 381 740	41 318 142	17,35
	Angola	Luanda	1 246 700	29 784 193	23,89
	Benin	Porto-Novo	112 620	11 175 692	99,23
	Botswana	Gaborone	600 370	2 291 661	3,82
	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	274 200	19 193 382	70,00
	Burundi	Bujumbura	27 830	10 864 245	390,38
	Cameroon	Yaoundé	475 440	24 053 727	50,59
	Cape Verde	Praia	4 033	546 388	135,48
	Central African Republic	Bangui	622 436	4 659 080	7,49
	Chad	N'Djamena	622 984	14 899 994	23,92
	Comoros	Moroni	1 862	813 912	437,12
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	2 344 858	81 339 988	34,69
	Djibouti	Djibouti	23 200	956 985	41,25
	Egypt	Cairo	1 001 450	97 553 151	97,41
	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	28 051	1 267 689	45,19
	Eritrea	Asmara	121 100	5 068 831	41,86
	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1 104 300	104 957 438	95,04
	Gabon	Libreville	267 667	2 025 137	7,57
	Gambia	Banjul	11 295	2 100 568	185,97
	Ghana	Accra	238 537	28 833 629	120,88
	Guinea	Conakry	250 158	12 717 176	50,84
	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	36 125	1 861 283	51,52
	Ivory Coast	Abidjan, Yamoussoukro	322 462	29 344 847	91,0
	Kenya	Nairobi	580 367	57 052 004	98,3
	Lesotho	Maseru	30 355	2 210 646	72,8
	Liberia	Monrovia	97 079	5 506 280	56,7
	Libya	Tripoli	1 775 500	7 252 573	4,1
	Madagascar	Antananarivo	587 041	28 812 195	49,1
	Malawi	Lilongwe	118 480	21 279 597	179,6
	Mali	Bamako	1 240 192	21 359 722	17,2
	Mauritania	Nouakchott	1 030 700	4 244 878	4,1
	Mauritius	Port Louis	2 040	1 309 448	641,9
	Morocco	Rabat	458 730	37 067 420	80,8
	Mozambique	Maputo	801 590	32 513 805	40,6
	Namibia	Windhoek	824 116	2 777 232	3,4
	Niger	Niamey	1 267 000	25 396 840	20,0
	Nigeria	Abuja	923 768	230 842 743	249,9
	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	342 000	5 677 493	16,6
	Rwanda	Kigali	26 338	13 400 541	508,8
	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	El Aaiún	266 000	552 628	2,1
	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	1 001	220 372	220,2
	Senegal	Dakar	196 722	18 384 660	93,5
	Seychelles	Victoria	455	97 617	214,5
	Sierra Leone	Freetown	71 740	8 908 040	124,2
	Somalia	Mogadishu	637 657	12 693 796	19,9
	South Africa	Cape Town, Pretoria	1 219 912	58 048 332	47,6
	South Sudan	Juba	644 000	12 118 379	18,8
	Sudan	Khartoum	1 886 068	49 197 555	26,1
	Swaziland	Mbabane	17 363	1 130 043	65,1
	Tanzania	Dodoma	945 087	65 642 682	69,5
	Togo	Lomé	56 785	8 703 961	153,3
	Tunisia	Tunis	163 610	11 976 182	73,2
	Uganda	Kampala	241 040	47 729 952	198,0
	Zambia	Lusaka	752 614	20 216 029	26,9
	Zimbabwe	Harare	390 757	15 418 674	39,5

List of dependent territories and not internationally recognized countries

Flag	Country	Capital	Leading country	Area (km²)	Population	Density (pers/km²)
Total				345 670	7 862 259	22,7
Update: 13.03.2023
	Ascension	Georgetown	UK	91	806	8,9
	Bouvet Island	-	Norway	49	0	0,0
	Ceuta	-	Spain	19	84 959	4 471,5
	Mayotte	Mamoudzou	France	373	256 518	687,7
	Melilla	-	Spain	13	86 120	6 624,6
	Puntland	Garowe	Self decleared independent	174 678	3 007 812	17,2
	Reunion	Saint-Denis	UK	2 547	852 924	334,9
	Saint Helena	Jamestown	UK	410	7 935	19,4
	Somaliland	Hargeisa	Self decleared independent	167 283	3 508 180	21,0
	Tristan da Cunha	Edimburgo de los Siete Mares	UK	207	270	1,3