Who plays, and who could · survey research + official statistics
Demographics
Two datasets, deliberately kept apart. Gamer demographics are published survey findings about players, attributed to the researchers who ran them. Population demographics are official per-country statistics about everyone. Every figure carries its source, and every gap is labelled.
Whose numbers these are. Every figure below was published by a named researcher — GeoPoll, PAGG, Newzoo or Carry1st — and is reported here with their sample size, markets, date and a link back. This platform has run no player survey of its own, so nothing here is presented as our primary research. Where a category has no published free figure, it says not published and names the kind of source that would fill it, rather than being estimated into existence.
349M
Total gamers in Africa
2024
Newzoo × Carry1st
304M
Playing on mobile
87% of all gamers
Newzoo × Carry1st
+32M
New gamers added
10% YoY growth
Newzoo × Carry1st
$1.8B
Market revenue
2024, +12.4% YoY
Newzoo × Carry1st
3 published3 partial2 not publishedClick any card for the full breakdown and its source