North African Arab states will have over 250 million inhabitants in 2025

A new report says that the population of the Arab states in North Africa will likely exceed 250 million inhabitants in 2025 including the most populated states of Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Algeria and the less populated Libya and Tunisia

In its latest report, the World Population Reference, which is an independent NGO specialized in demography-development issues, says Morocco, which stands currently in the 37th rank with its 28.2 mln souls, will maintain its world rank by 2010. Morocco will have 39.1 million inhabitants in 2025, placing the Kingdom at the 40th world population rank.

Egypt, which counts currently 66 Mln souls, will exceed 95 mln in 2025, while Algeria, which has now a 30.7 Mln strong population, will have 46 mln in 2025. By 2050, Sudan will have a population of 60,000 million, while Libya's will be 11 million and Tunisia's will be 15 million.

Africa, which accounts for 13 % of the world population estimated at 6 billion, will witness a 34 % demographic growth between 2000 and 2025 ahead of India (" 18 %), china (" 7 %) and latin America (" 10 %).