What can you conclude about the population of Africa based on this information?

1. Africa's population has increased dramatically since the mid-20th century. In 1950, there were approximately 230 million people living on the continent. Today, there are 1.2 billion, an increase of almost a billion people in about seventy years.

2. Africa has fifty-four sovereign states and countries, nine territories, and two independent states with limited recognition.

3. Forty-one percent of Africa's population is under the age of fifteen.

4. The life expectancy in Africa has increased to about sixty years, up from thirty-seven years in 1950.

5. The child mortality rate in Africa has decreased dramatically. In the 1950s, one in every four children died before reaching age five. Today, it is one death per ten children.

6. Africa has the world's highest fertility rate, with women having about five children on average. The global average is 2.5. Of the world's twenty-one high-fertility countries, nineteen are in Africa.

7. By 2050, Africa's child population will reach about one billion.

8. Nigeria, the African country with the seventh largest population globally, is growing rapidly and may surpass the population of the United States by 2050, becoming the third largest country in the world.

9. By 2050, the populations of twenty-eight African countries are expected to double. In eighty years, ten African countries could see their populations increase fivefold.

10. By the end of the 21st century, approximately forty percent of the world's population is projected to live in Africa.

11. Nigeria is Africa's most populated country with about 198 million people. Seychelles has the smallest population size with nearly 96,000 people.

12. Currently, Africa is the second-most populous continent, after Asia, and the fastest growing at a rate of 2.55 percent per year.

13. By 2050, it is expected that 2.4 billion people will be added to the world's population, with 1.3 billion of that growth in Africa, while Europe's population is expected to decline.