The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Population
5,018,502
note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2000 est.)

Age structure
0-14 years: 46% (male 1,161,610; female 1,153,877)
15-64 years: 51% (male 1,254,437; female 1,327,306)
65 years and over: 3% (male 53,101; female 68,171) (2000 est.)

Population growth rate
2.71% (2008 est.)

Birth rate
36.66 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Death rate
9.48 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Sex ratio
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

Infant mortality rate
57.66 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
total population: 54.69 years
male: 52.75 years
female: 56.7 years (2000 est.)