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