Nigeria ranked third in the list of African countries with the highest number of software developers. As one of the most in-demand top tech talent hunt by both local and international employers, software developers has increased in Africa as many people want to increase their chances of landing a high paid job.
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Countries like South Africa and Egypt are leading other African countries in the size of tech pool talents while Nigeria is 3rd on the list even though Nigeria is referred to as the Giant of Africa as it is more populated.
In a report by Tunga.io, Github and a recent IFC report on African internet economy, they were able to generate an agreeable total number of software developers in African countries. 90% of the the whole African IT tech pool was occupied by the top 17 countries relative to the numbers of developers therefore the report was focused on these countries and the estimated professional developers were found to be 690,000. The three leading countries on the list which is South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria accommodates more than half of the estimated size and the list is as follow:
South Africa- 133,195
Egypt – 125,270
Nigeria – 114,536
Kenya – 58,866
Morocco – 49,818
Tunisia – 45,247
Ghana – 20,551
Algeria – 20,530
Uganda – 13,113
Ethiopia – 8,316
Senegal – 8,113
Tanzania – 8,065
Cameroon – 7,748
Mauritius – 6,879
Zimbabwe – 6,588
Rwanda – 6,412
Ivory Coast – 5,165
Furthermore on the report by Tunga.io
Tunga.io also reported in an article that as the estimated number of developers used does not cover the whole scope of the research, a more detailed overview of these countries will be generated as the ranking for the relative size of the tech talent pool will be added.
Another ranking based on the relative number of developers per million population was generated and it was seen that small populated countries like Mauritius are leading with a thriving number of tech talent pools while Nigeria ranked low as it is highly populated compared to the other countries irrespective of its high developer talent pool.
