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.
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.
| 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% |
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