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ANNEX 1. Population in the COMCEC Member Countries
Country
Total
population(1000 inhab)
Rural
population(1000 inhab)
Urban
population(1000 inhab)Population
density
(inhab/km
2)
Total
economically
active
population(1000 inhab)
Total economically
active population in
agriculture
(1000
inhab)
as % of
total
population
African Group 370594 215086 155508 66.66 135561 69849 18.85
Benin 9100 5233 3867 79.30 3730 1616 17.76
Burkina Faso 16968 12464 4504 61.88 7764 7146 42.11
Cameroon 20030 8176 11854 42.13 7694 3572 17.83
Chad 11525 8279 3246 8.98 4645 2997 26.00
Cote d’Ivoire 20153 9812 10341 62.50 7626 2812 13.95
Gabon 1534 208 1326 5.73 730 184 11.99
Gambia 1776 729 1047 157.20 822 622 35.02
Guinea 10222 6554 3668 41.58 4931 3912 38.27
Guinea-Bissau 1547 1080 467 42.82 576 455 29.41
Mali 15840 10037 5803 12.77 4203 3122 19.71
Mozambique 23930 14544 9386 29.94 11033 8856 37.01
Niger 16069 13298 2771 12.68 5301 4377 27.24
Nigeria 162471 80389 82082 175.90 50891 12277 7.56
Senegal 12768 7318 5450 64.90 5626 3933 30.80
Sierra Leone 5997 3672 2325 83.59 2259 1344 22.41
Togo 6155 3438 2717 108.40 2477 1307 21.23
Uganda 34509 29855 4654 142.90 15253 11317 32.79
Arab Group 365002 158809 206193 195.40 126840 29987 8.22
Algeria 35980 11840 24140 15.11 15285 3187 8.86
Bahrain 1324 150 1174 1742.00 658 4 0.30
Comoros 754 504 250 405.20 330 227 30.11
Djibouti 906 215 691 39.05 396 291 32.12
Egypt 82537 46599 35938 82.42 26977 6599 8.00
Iraq 32665 11075 21590 75.05 8260 430 1.32
Jordan 6330 1354 4976 70.87 1851 112 1.77
Kuwait 2818 45 2773 158.10 1419 14 0.50
Lebanon 4259 537 3722 407.60 1571 27 0.63
Libya 6423 1407 5016 3.65 2351 68 1.06
Mauritania 3542 2065 1477 3.44 1523 764 21.57
Morocco 32273 13281 18992 72.27 11965 2973 9.21
Oman 2846 760 2086 9.20 1136 321 11.28
Palestine 4152 1064 3088 689.70 1422 109 2.63
Qatar 1870 77 1793 161.10 1214 8 0.43