| Indicator | Child Population in thousands |
| |   |
| Country | | |
| Algeria | | 11 870 |
| Angola | | 8 797 |
| Benin | | 4 437 |
| Botswana | | 784 |
| Burkina Faso | | 7 573 |
| Burundi | | 4 249 |
| Cameroon | | 8 791 |
| Cape Verde | | 240 |
| Central African Republic | | 2 107 |
| Chad | | 5 528 |
| Comoros | | 395 |
| Congo | | 1 788 |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | | 32 671 |
| Côte d''Ivoire | | 9 179 |
| Djibouti | | 368 |
| Egypt | | 29 263 |
| Equatorial Guinea | | 241 |
| Eritrea | | 2 330 |
| Ethiopia | | 41 299 |
| Gabon | | 554 |
| Gambia | | 784 |
| Ghana | | 10 452 |
| Guinea | | 4 576 |
| Guinea-Bissau | | 889 |
| Kenya | | 18 155 |
| Lesotho | | 952 |
| Liberia | | 1 922 |
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | | 2 154 |
| Madagascar | | 9 613 |
| Malawi | | 7 286 |
| Mali | | 6 528 |
| Mauritania | | 1 415 |
| Mauritius | | 360 |
| Morocco | | 11 135 |
| Mozambique | | 10 674 |
| Namibia | | 942 |
| Niger | | 7 455 |
| Nigeria | | 73 703 |
| Rwanda | | 4 844 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | | 75 |
| Senegal | | 5 888 |
| Seychelles | | 44 |
| Sierra Leone | | 2 827 |
| South Africa | | 18 349 |
| Sudan | | 17 697 |
| Swaziland | | 536 |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | | 20 171 |
| Togo | | 3 192 |
| Tunisia | | 3 225 |
| Uganda | | 16 828 |
| Zambia | | 6 164 |
| Zimbabwe | | 6 199 |
| Africa | | 447 498 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | | 389 851 |