2025 Facts & Figures: AFRICA

INCREASE in KENYA’s elephant population since 2014, to a total of 36,280, thanks to conservation and anti-poaching efforts. However, Savanna elephants, which are found in 23 countries and live in a variety of habitats, went from vulnerable to endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List.

^{Source: The New York Times}

NIGERIA is now the world’s third most prolific film-producing nation, behind only the United States and India. Nigeria’s film industry, known as Nollywood, started in the 1990s and evolved from producing low-budget movies for local audiences to attracting global audiences on Netflix and Amazon—a shift that has helped bring African narratives to a wider public.

^{Source: CNN}

SOUTH AFRICA, sometimes called the “Rainbow Nation,” has thousands of ethnic groups and 11 official languages, including Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and English.

^{Sources: U.S. News & world Report, Times of India}

The longest river in the world, THE NILE (above) flows through or along the border of 11 African countries—Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt—for a total of 4,132 miles.

^{Source: National Geographic}