Considering the products traded, the EU's major imports from Africa were above all energy products Table 3. For these products, in particular for crude oil, Africa is second only to Russia as an EU import source. Falling since , the trend changed in when the value of energy product imports from Africa rose to EUR This made up Other important groups of goods imported from Africa were food and live animals In , EU exports to Africa mainly consisted of processed products.
The main product group was machinery and vehicles, in particular road vehicles, with EUR 5. This product group accounted for Other important product groups were manufactured products classified by material around EUR From to , the value of EU exports to Africa of machinery and vehicles, by far the largest product group, fell by 0.
Amongst the other main product groups, the value of exports to Africa dropped by 0. On the other side, the African demand for energy products rose by On the import side, the value of imports of energy products from Africa was volatile. It rose by This downturn was partly due to the falling world market prices for petroleum products and partly due to decreasing quantities imported from a number of important countries in and This decline continued during , but the trade in these products started recovering in There was in particular a strong recovery in the volumes of energy products imported from Libya Also imports from Algeria In addition to energy products, there were also significant increases in the value of chemicals and crude materials imported from Africa to the EU Tourism contributes considerably to the economy of many African countries.
In , the total number of arrivals of non-resident tourists at the border of African countries amounted to Several African countries recorded high tourist numbers in Figure 15 presents the Top 10 countries in Africa and the European Union in terms of the non-resident tourist arrivals.
One has, however, to note that the European Union data record arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments. Thus, on the one hand, European Union figures do not record tourists arriving in non-rented accommodation e. On the other hand, tourists travelling inside the country and staying in more than one tourist accommodation establishment during their trip are counted as a new arrival each time they check-in at an accommodation establishment.
Therefore, the figures for European Union Member States cannot be directly compared to the figures for African countries, which record tourist arrivals at the border. Morocco, South Africa, Egypt and Tunisia together accounted for more than half of all non-resident tourist arrivals in Africa in Most of the North African countries registered a strong increase in the number of tourists up to the year However, following the civil uprisings during the Arab spring and the uncertain security situation thereafter, the numbers of non-resident tourists fell considerably in several countries.
In Egypt, arrivals peaked at In , Egypt recorded just short of 8. This was, however, still the third highest number among the African countries. An exception in North Africa is Morocco, where the security situation has remained stable over the reference period.
The number of non-resident tourist arrivals in Morocco has grown steadily since , with only a slight slow-down in In , the number of arriving tourists stood at South Africa, as the previous year, remained the second largest tourist destination in Africa with This represented an increase by 1. After Egypt in third place, Tunisia followed far behind in fourth place, recording 5.
Telecommunications are crucial for developing a digital economy and society and for providing access to new services and information. Therefore, telecommunications play an important role in national development and the global economy. As fixed network infrastructure is expensive and takes long to build, especially in remote and thinly populated areas, mobile networks have taken a prominent role in the development of the telecommunications sector and the digital economy and society in Africa.
As a result, mobile communication penetration has risen rapidly over the last decade. Urban Population : Population living in areas classified as urban according to the criteria used by each country. Global Rank : Position held by Africa in the list of all regions worldwide ranked by population from the highest population to the lowest population as of July 1 of the year indicated.
Coronavirus Population. Africa Population - The current population of Africa is 1,,, as of Friday, November 12, , based on the latest United Nations estimates.
Africa population is equivalent to While the world total is only slightly higher, it conceals a radical change in population distribution across the different continents.
In the population of Asia was projected to reach 5. For Africa, on the other hand, the projections gave a population of 2. Comparison of population projections published in and Gilles Pison based on UN data. The first surprise came 30 years ago, when surveys revealed the unexpectedly rapid pace of fertility decline in many countries of Asia and Latin America.
In response to this new trend, the United Nations made substantial downward revisions to their demographic projections for these continents. A second more recent surprise concerns intertropical Africa. Fertility decline in this region was expected to begin later than in Asia and Latin America due to slower social and economic development, but it was assumed that the rate of decrease would ultimately match that observed in other regions of the Global South.
This is indeed the case in North and southern Africa, but not in intertropical Africa where the fertility decline is occurring more slowly. These figures are projections and the future is obviously not written. However, demographic projections are quite reliable for predicting population size in the short term future, i. Just 13 years ago, the country's population was 34 million, which has now grown to 45 million but is projected to reach million by , which is close to the current population of the U.
Many consider Africa's population growth a bit frightening, with predictions placing the continent's population at 2. By , more than half of the world's growth is expected to come from Africa, reaching 4. Most countries will at least triple in population as the region has very high fertility rates and very little family planning in most regions. As much of Africa is still developing, and it contains some of the poorest countries on earth, time will tell how it will sustain such massive population growth.
Africa Demographics The African nations as a whole are made up from such a diverse set of components that it is impossible to list them in full concerning demographics. List of Capitals in Africa.
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