Percentage of White people living in Africa

Largest white populace in Africa.

The African country with the largest white population of European descent is South Africa with 7.8% of the total population of 56.5 million people, the second is Botswana with 7% of the total population of 2.3 million, third is Namibia with 6% of the total population of 2.6 million.

Smallest white populace in Africa.

There are seven African countries tied for the smallest number of whites living in Africa and they all begin with the letter S and Z, they are South Sudan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Sao Tome and Principe, Zambia and Zimbabwe with .01% of the total population in each African country.

Minorities in Africa.

Race and ethnicity in Africa is complex because of the colonization of all 54 African countries except Ethiopia by white Europeans of the United Kingdom, Germany, Romans, Danish, the French, the Dutch, China and many others. The listing of white inhabitants on Africa’s mainland and Islands uses data from 2020 World Fact Book. White minority residents in Africa are a culturally, ethnically, and racially distinct group of people, our chart shows the percentage of white population of European descent.

White people constitute a small minority of the total population on the African continent with the three whitest African countries being South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.

Table of the percentage of Africa that is white.

African Countries.	Percent of white population.
Algeria	Less than 1%
Angola	2%
Benin	Less than 1%
Botswana	7%
Burkina Faso	Less than 1%
Burundi	Less than 1%
Cabo Verde	1%
Cameroon	Less than 1%
Central African Republic	Less than 1%
Chad	Less than 1%
The Democratic Republic of the Congo	Less than .5%
The Republic of the Congo	Less than .5%
Cote d'Ivoire	Less than 1%
Djibouti	Less than 1%
Egypt	Less than 1%
Equatorial Guinea	1.40%
Eritrea	Less than 1%
eSwatini	3%
Ethiopia	Less than 1%
Gabon	Less than 1%
The Gambia	Less than 1%
Ghana	Less than 1%
Guinea	Less than 1%
Guinea-Bissau	Less than 1%
Kenya	Less than 1%
Lesotho	Less than 1%
Liberia	Less than 1%
Libya	Less than 1%
Madagascar	Less than .3%
Malawi	Less than 1%
Mali	Less than 1%
Mauritania	Less than 1%
Mauritius	No ethnicity national census since 1972
Morocco	Less than 1%
Mozambique	Less than .5%
Namibia	6%
Niger	Less than .3%
Nigeria	Less than 1%
Rwanda	Less than .2%
Sao Tome and Principe	Less than .1%
Senegal	1%
Seychelles	Less than .01%
Sierra Leone	Less than .01%
Somalia	Less than .3%
South Africa	7.80%
South Sudan	Less than .01%
Sudan	Less than .01%
Tanzania	Less than .3%
Togo	Less than .2%
Tunisia	1%
Uganda	Less than .2%
Zambia	Less than .01%
Zimbabwe	Less than .02%