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Africa is one of the 7 world continents. It is our continent and Nigeria is Africa's largest country in terms of size and population. Africa is the world's 2nd-largest and 2nd-most populous continent, after Asia in both population and land-size aspects. With about 30.3 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land size area and 6% of its total surface land area. With 1.4 billion people as of 2021, Africa accounts for about 18% of the world's people population.

Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation. With over 200 million population, Africa leads all other nations in both population and land area size. Next to Nigeria is Ethiopia, with about just half of Nigeria's population size, South Africa has about a quarter of Nigeria's population - (60 million) population, while neighboring Ghana has just above 30 million people.
Below are populations of each African country in descending order:


# Country --- Population (2023)
1 Nigeria 223,804,632
2 Ethiopia 126,527,060
3 Egypt 112,716,598
4 DR Congo 102,262,808
5 Tanzania 67,438,106
6 South Africa 60,414,495
7 Kenya 55,100,586
8 Sudan 48,109,006
9 Uganda 48,582,334
10 Algeria 45,606,480
11 Morocco 37,840,044
12 Angola 36,684,202
13 Ghana 34,121,985
14 Mozambique 33,897,354
15 Madagascar 30,325,732
16 Côte d'Ivoire 28,873,034
17 Cameroon 28,647,293
18 Niger 27,202,843
19 Burkina Faso 23,251,485
20 Mali 23,293,698
21 Malawi 20,931,751
22 Zambia 20,569,737
23 Chad 18,278,568
24 Senegal 17,763,163
25 Somalia 18,143,378
26 Zimbabwe 16,665,409
27 Guinea 14,190,612
28 Rwanda 14,094,683
29 Benin 13,712,828
30 Tunisia 12,458,223
31 Burundi 13,238,559
32 South Sudan 11,088,796
33 Togo 9,053,799
34 Sierra Leone 8,791,092
35 Libya 6,888,388
36 Congo 6,106,869
37 Central African Republic 5,742,315
38 Liberia 5,418,377
39 Mauritania 4,862,989
40 Eritrea 3,748,901
41 Gambia 2,773,168
42 Botswana 2,675,352
43 Namibia 2,604,172
44 Gabon 2,436,566
45 Lesotho 2,330,318
46 Guinea-Bissau 2,150,842
47 Equatorial Guinea 1,714,671
48 Mauritius 1,300,557
49 Eswatini 1,210,822
50 Djibouti 1,136,455
51 Réunion 981,796
52 Comoros 852,075
53 Cabo Verde 598,682
54 Western Sahara 587,259
55 Mayotte 335,995
56 Sao Tome & Principe 231,856
57 Seychelles 107,660
58 Saint Helena 5,314

Nigeria is undoubtedly the giant of Africa. Yet, sadly, smaller countries like SA and Ghana have better economy as implied in currency strengths exchange rates against the US Dollar.

12.00 Ghanaian Cedi = 1 USD
18.50 South African Rand = 1 USD, but
903.89 Nigerian Naira = 1 USD.

Very sad and disappointing,

What is the way forward?

Thanks for the post. Lagos alone is larger than most African countries.

We many oo

The article is really educative. I plan on travelling the whole Africa in future.

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Also, it's seriously discouraging that the Giant of Africa, Nigerian currency (Naira) is of a lesser and poorer value to other currencies in Africa.

Interesting

Truth be told I don't think there's any way forward for the naira, until the federal government stop relying on foreign countries for literally everything (which they won't stop anytime soon), the naira will keep losing to the dollar

CarolinaBaby1 wrote: ↑December 31st, 2023, 9:42 am Truth be told I don't think there's any way forward for the naira, until the federal government stop relying on foreign countries for literally everything (which they won't stop anytime soon), the naira will keep losing to the dollar

My allegations to them is that: IT ALL LOOKS DELIBERATE.

So sad.

Nice