The Hausa are Africa's largest ethnic group at roughly 86 million people, ahead of the Yoruba at 53 million. West Africa ...

Niger has the lowest unemployment rate in Africa at 0.4%, followed by Burundi (0.9%) and Chad (1.1%) (ILO modelled estimates, December 2025, via Trading Economics) All ten countries on the list sit ...

Algeria's Sonatrach is Africa's largest company by revenue at $48.8 billion, ahead of Nigeria's NNPC at $30.1 billion. Five of the continent's ten biggest companies are state-owned, and six of the ten ...

All ten are in sub-Saharan Africa. North Africa's rates are far lower — Tunisia, the continent's lowest, sits at 1.93 children per woman. At 5.84 children per woman, Chad now has the highest fertility ...

Zimbabwe has Africa's highest central bank interest rate at 30%, ahead of Malawi (24%) and Nigeria (23%), which slipped to ...

*Exact global ranks were not available in the sources reviewed. Ranges follow from the order of the African list. "Not ranked" means the company was not among South Africa's eight entries in 2025.

The dollar bought 305 naira at the official rate in 2016 and buys 1,326 naira in September 2026, a decade of Central Bank of ...