Africa’s Most Populous Countries | 1960–2025 | POPULATION RACE |

Welcome to Afriq DataScope — Statistics Explained Visually. This video presents an animated data visualization covering Africa’s Most Populous Countries (1960–2025) | All 54 Countries over time. Populous countries are countries that have a large number of people living in them. Why do some countries have large populations? Population size can be influenced by: 👶 Birth rates 🏥 Healthcare and life expectancy 🚶 Migration 🏙️ Urbanization 📜 Historical population growth Watch the population rankings of all 54 African countries change from 1960 to 2025. Nigeria remains the continent’s largest population, while Ethiopia, Egypt, DR Congo, Tanzania and other countries grow and change position across 66 years. Values represent total population in persons from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL). The source provides complete annual coverage for every country in this workbook, so no blanks, interpolation or placeholder zeroes were required. Data sources and methodology: Metric; Total population in persons at the country level, World Bank indicator SP.POP.TOTL. Period; 1960–2025, using the complete annual series available in the 13 July 2026 World Bank update. Coverage; Every country has all 66 annual observations: 3,564 populated cells and no missing values. 2025 interpretation; The 2025 values are the latest published population estimates in the World Bank series. Source; World Bank — Population, total, World Bank Indicators API, World Development Indicators, UN World Population Prospects 2024. #Africa #Population #Demographics #Nigeria #Ethiopia #DataVisualization #BarChartRace #Flourish #GlobalStats Subscribe for more African statistics, rankings and visual stories.