Population, male (% of total population) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Male population is the percentage of the population that is male. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Equatorial Guinea 55.62 2020
2 Djibouti 52.53 2020
3 Seychelles 51.29 2020
4 Gabon 50.90 2020
5 Ghana 50.69 2020
6 Nigeria 50.68 2020
7 Egypt 50.52 2020
8 Algeria 50.52 2020
9 Libya 50.48 2020
10 Comoros 50.44 2020
11 Côte d'Ivoire 50.42 2020
12 Niger 50.28 2020
13 Liberia 50.27 2020
14 Mauritania 50.22 2020
15 Cabo Verde 50.20 2020
16 Mali 50.10 2020
17 São Tomé and Principe 50.04 2020
18 Ethiopia 50.03 2020
19 Cameroon 50.02 2020
20 Eritrea 49.99 2011
21 Tanzania 49.97 2020
22 Burkina Faso 49.97 2020
23 Sudan 49.96 2020
24 Congo 49.96 2020
25 Benin 49.94 2020
26 Chad 49.92 2020
27 Dem. Rep. Congo 49.92 2020
28 Sierra Leone 49.91 2020
29 Madagascar 49.89 2020
30 Somalia 49.86 2020
31 Togo 49.76 2020
32 Kenya 49.69 2020
33 Morocco 49.63 2020
34 Burundi 49.62 2020
35 The Gambia 49.59 2020
36 Tunisia 49.59 2020
37 Central African Republic 49.57 2020
38 Zambia 49.52 2020
39 Angola 49.48 2020
40 Mauritius 49.34 2020
41 Lesotho 49.34 2020
42 Malawi 49.32 2020
43 Uganda 49.29 2020
44 South Africa 49.26 2020
45 Rwanda 49.16 2020
46 Eswatini 49.15 2020
47 Guinea-Bissau 48.92 2020
48 Senegal 48.80 2020
49 Mozambique 48.59 2020
50 Namibia 48.47 2020
51 Botswana 48.44 2020
52 Guinea 48.38 2020
53 Zimbabwe 47.72 2020

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Statistical Concept and Methodology: Population structure by age and sex in the World Bank's estimates is based on the population structure by age and sex in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual