Common Metrics for All African Countries

Country-Capital-Population- (2025)-GDP (Nominal, USD)-Official Language(s)-Currency

1. Algeria Algiers 46,164,219 260,134,000,000 Arabic Algerian dinar
2. Angola Luanda 36,749,906 113,286,000,000 Portuguese Kwanza
3. Benin Porto-Novo 13,743,000 20,000,000,000 French West African CFA franc
4. Botswana Gaborone 2,630,000 18,000,000,000 English, Tswana Pula
5. Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 23,000,000 17,000,000,000 French West African CFA franc
6. Burundi Gitega 13,000,000 3,000,000,000 Kirundi, French Burundian franc
7. Cabo Verde Praia 560,000 2,000,000,000 Portuguese Cape Verdean escudo
8. Cameroon Yaoundé 28,000,000 45,000,000,000 French, English Central African CFA franc
9. Central African Republic Bangui 5,000,000 2,000,000,000 French, Sango Central African CFA franc
10. Chad N'Djamena 18,000,000 11,000,000,000 French, Arabic Central African CFA franc
11. Comoros Moroni 900,000 1,000,000,000 Comorian, Arabic, French Comorian franc
12. Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 108,000,000 55,000,000,000 French Congolese franc
13. Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 6,000,000 12,000,000,000 French Central African CFA franc
14. Djibouti Djibouti 1,000,000 3,000,000,000 French, Arabic Djiboutian franc
15. Egypt Cairo 114,535,772 380,044,000,000 Arabic Egyptian pound
16. Equatorial Guinea Malabo 1,500,000 10,000,000,000 Spanish, French, Portuguese Central African CFA franc
17. Eritrea Asmara 6,000,000 2,000,000,000 Tigrinya, Arabic, English Nakfa
18. Eswatini Mbabane 1,200,000 5,000,000,000 Swazi, English Lilangeni
19. Ethiopia Addis Ababa 128,691,692 230,021,000,000 Amharic Ethiopian birr
20. Gabon Libreville 2,300,000 18,000,000,000 French Central African CFA franc
21. The Gambia Banjul 2,500,000 2,000,000,000 English Dalasi
22. Ghana Accra 34,000,000 75,000,000,000 English Ghanaian cedi
23. Guinea Conakry 14,000,000 15,000,000,000 French Guinean franc
24. Guinea-Bissau Bissau 2,000,000 1,000,000,000 Portuguese West African CFA franc
25. Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro 31,165,654 86,993,000,000 French West African CFA franc
26. Kenya Nairobi 55,339,003 116,321,000,000 English, Swahili Kenyan shilling
27. Lesotho Maseru 2,300,000 3,000,000,000 English, Sesotho Lesotho loti
28. Liberia Monrovia 5,000,000 3,000,000,000 English Liberian dollar
29. Libya Tripoli 7,000,000 50,000,000,000 Arabic Libyan dinar
30. Madagascar Antananarivo 30,000,000 14,000,000,000 Malagasy, French Malagasy ariary
31. Malawi Lilongwe 20,000,000 10,000,000,000 English, Chichewa Malawian kwacha
32. Mali Bamako 25,000,000 19,000,000,000 French West African CFA franc
33. Mauritania Nouakchott 5,000,000 10,000,000,000 Arabic Mauritanian ouguiya
34. Mauritius Port Louis 1,300,000 16,000,000,000 English Mauritian rupee
35. Morocco Rabat 37,712,505 157,087,000,000 Arabic, Berber Moroccan dirham
36. Mozambique Maputo 33,000,000 15,000,000,000 Portuguese Mozambican metical
37. Namibia Windhoek 2,500,000 12,000,000,000 English Namibian dollar
38. Niger Niamey 27,000,000 14,000,000,000 French West African CFA franc
39. Nigeria Abuja 227,882,945 199,721,000,000 English Nigerian naira
40. Rwanda Kigali 14,000,000 12,000,000,000 Kinyarwanda, French, English Rwandan franc
41. São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé 230,000 500,000,000 Portuguese Dobra
42. Senegal Dakar 18,000,000 24,000,000,000 French West African CFA franc
43. Seychelles Victoria 100,000 1,500,000,000 English, French, Seychellois Creole Seychellois rupee
44. Sierra Leone Freetown 8,000,000 4,000,000,000 English Sierra Leonean leone
45. Somalia Mogadishu 17,000,000 7,000,000,000 Somali, Arabic Somali shilling
46. South Africa Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial) 60,000,000 350,000,000,000 English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, and 7 others South African rand
47. South Sudan Juba 13,000,000 4,000,000,000 English South Sudanese pound
48. Sudan Khartoum 48,000,000 30,000,000,000 Arabic, English Sudanese pound
49. Tanzania Dodoma 67,000,000 70,000,000,000 Swahili, English Tanzanian shilling
50. Togo Lomé 10,000,000 8,000,000,000 French West African CFA franc
51. Tunisia Tunis 12,000,000 50,000,000,000 Arabic Tunisian dinar
52. Uganda Kampala 50,000,000 40,000,000,000 English, Swahili Ugandan shilling
53. Zambia Lusaka 20,000,000 25,000,000,000 English Zambian kwacha
54. Zimbabwe Harare 16,000,000 20,000,000,000 English, Shona, Ndebele Zimbabwean dollar