▲ Soweto township, home to approximately 40% of Johannesburg’s population. ©Travis Lupick. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
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Africa Asia + Oceania Europe South America North America
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Population by Major Region 2010-2100 (in millions, medium variant)
FIGURE 1.1: Population by Major Region 2010-2100 (in millions, medium variant)
Source: World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, UNDESA, New York, 2013, http://esa.un.org/wpp/Excel-Data/population.htm, last accessed 16 August 2013. * Projections.
CHAPTER ONE
Projected Population (thousands)
FIGURE 1.2: Projected Population Dynamics of Africa’s Five Most-populous Countries, 2010-2050 (thousands)
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400,000 360,000 320,000 280,000 240,000 200,000 160,000 120,000 80,000 40,000 0
2010-50* growth (000s) Nigeria
2010
2020*
2030*
Source: World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, UNDESA, New York, 2012. * Projections.
2040*
2050*
231,192
DR Congo
82,557
Ethiopia
62,237
Tanzania
93,471
Egypt
42,331