ACCRA, Oct 5 (NNN-GNA) — Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will rocket up from the world’s 16th most populous country in 2019 to ninth place by 2050, according to the Population Reference Bureau’s (PRB) 2019 World Population Data Sheet.
According to the PRB’s data copied to the Ghana News Agency, DRC’s anticipated growth will make it the third most populous country in Africa by 2050, supplanting Egypt from its current position in the top three.
Nigeria and Ethiopia will retain their positions in Africa’s top two most populous nations in 2050, with Nigeria’s population expected to double from 201.0 million to 401.3 million people, overtaking the United States.
It suggests that countries in Africa will be home to some of the world’s youngest populations, those ages 15 or below, including Niger (50 percent); Angola, Chad, and Mali (48 percent); and Uganda and Somalia (47 percent).
The widely referenced World Population Data Sheet has been produced annually since 1962, focuses on censuses around the world from the first known census by the Babylonian Empire to Malawi’s census taking using tablet technology.
As part of the 2020 census round, which runs from 2015 to 2024, 22 countries were scheduled to take a census in 2019, including Cameroon, Haiti, Kenya, Sudan, and Nicaragua.
Additional 52 countries plan to count their populations in 2020 among them are Ghana, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Mongolia, the Philippines, Russia, the United States and Zambia.
The report estimates there would be 28% global population increase between now and 2050; 51 million absolute decline in East Asia’s population between 2019 and 2050, which is largest in the world; and 25% share of Sub-Saharan Africa’s 2019-2050 population increase with one to two billion coming from DRC and Nigeria alone. — NNN-GNA: