POPULATION GROWTH IN AFRICA EXHIBITOR: Papa Abdoulaye Diouf
INTRODUCTION Despite great improvements over the past several years, the quality of demographic data in Africa is still a problem. Population growth is extremely rapid, with all countries growing at annual rates of over 3%. The natural increase rate even shows some signs of increasing slightly in the next decade or so. From 100 million in 1900, the population of Africa rose to about 275 million in the years , then 1.2 billion in According to demographic projections, the population of Africa will be between 2 and 3 billion then 4.4 billion in 2100.