Talk:List of African countries by population

message: A date and source is needed for these population figures.
:This is strongly seconded. I added a tag. AxelBoldt 02:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: sourcing

message: In looking at this page I just noted we have SADR and Morocco listed, which is fine, but Morocco population estimates include the Western Sahara, which strongly implies a double counting of the SADR and Morocco categories (for all that the Morocco 33 million est. by CIA is somewhat dubious). As the pop of W. Sahara is fairly trivial, this is not a huge issue, however it is an inaccuracy. (81.192.169.110 (talk) 18:33, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population Figures Error / Issue 

message: Calculated, when available, from the latest national censuses or most recent official estimates (many of which are cited in their respective column), using the exponential formula shown on the List of countries by past and future population article. This is done to normalize the different populations to a unique date, so that they are really comparable.
Everything calculated that way is WP:NOR and should be deleted. Extrapolating population trends is the work of scientists, not wikipedia authors. --S.arrhenius (talk) 10:20, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: To be precise: This is far from being routine calculations. There are a number of different methods used by various institutions with considerably different outcomes, as a quick google search shows. Which one to choose, which data to use is not up to us --S.arrhenius (talk) 10:33, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:NOR 

message: The format of the table in this article was boldly changed recently, to add quite a few new columns, some of which don't seem to be sourced, such as "doubling rate". Furthermore, that version seemed to imply population decreases in most of the countries listed between 2019 and 2021, for example Nigeria from 200,963,599 to 195,868,433. While a third column had no header at all. I have no objection in principle to using UN data as a single point of reference and apples-to-apples comparison for all countries, but the table format needs to be agreed here, and it should not have columns which represent WP:OR. I have reverted back to the last good version, with actual listed sourced data for the time being. CHeers  — Amakuru (talk) 11:00, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table format 

message: Where is Guinea-Bissau?
Only UN member that seems missing from the table.
Cstanford.math (talk) 16:40, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps connected to the bug discussed here: Module talk:Country population? Cstanford.math (talk) 19:22, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

text: For now, I've rolled back to the previous non-buggy table, but would be nice to get the autogenerated one working, any ideas User:Guarapiranga ? Cstanford.math (talk) 19:29, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guinea-Bissau? 

message: Isn't on the list but is in the pie chart?
Page seems sketchy. 208.38.201.147 (talk) 03:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uganda 

message: Calculate total number of people at the end of the table 169.255.185.25 (talk) 19:53, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total number 

message: Do you guys think that Somaliland should be included on this list considering Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) is? Gatorbearratica (talk) 15:43, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is a de facto sovereign state and we can get a population figure for it, then I don't see why not. Wizmut (talk) 02:56, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somaliland 

message: :Yes: Somaliland's de facto independence of three decades was recognized for the first time by another country recently, after Taiwan's foreign ministry began referring to the region as a "Republic" and a "country". Per an earlier consensus, all partially recognized states should be included on country lists like this one (those which use multiple sources). Wizmut (talk) 01:52, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survey (Treatment of Somaliland) 

message: Saint Helena (and nearby islands) are sometimes considered part of Africa, in models which divide the entire world into continents.https://www.worlddata.info/africa/saint-helena/index.phphttps://data.un.org/CountryProfile.aspx/_Docs/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Saint%20Helena. Additionally, it is part of the African plate.http://sainthelenaisland.info/geology.htm
This may seem an extreme example, but similar ones exist in the case of Bermuda being considered part of North Americahttps://www.worlddata.info/america/bermuda/index.php and Easter Island being considered part of Oceania.https://earth.esa.int/web/earth-watching/image-of-the-week/content/-/article/easter-island/index.html Wizmut (talk) 21:53, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: See Rfc way above. Mathglot (talk) 22:19, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of Saint Helena 

message: this edit adds the percentage of the total African population for each country, which is a nice-to-have, but it makes the page unmaintainable. I wanted to add the latest figures for South Africa from the recently-released census (62,027,503), but didn't as this would require manual updates to every single row in the table. All figures are actually already wrong, since there have been numerous population updates since then, but no updates to the percentage figures. I suggest this column be removed, or automatically calculated. Greenman (talk) 09:56, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Greenman, the "% Africa", "Africa population" and "% growth" columns are based on the UN estimate which comes out every year at the same time for each country (compare the unmarried master lists here and here), so the article can be updated once a year in that respect. The census figure should go in the Official figure column, with an updated Official date. Some may find it easier to update the UN estimates with templates (it's been done in the past), but they haven't been used much lately and I find it easier to copy and paste from Excel using internet tools. Regards Wizmut (talk) 13:24, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentage population of total African population