The following statistics are based on version 8.5 of the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera. For the Afrotropical region this version contains a total of 23,206 species name records of which 19,824 (85%) represent valid species. 95% of the species are endemic to the Afrotropical region.

For statistics on other biogeographic regions click on the following links:
All Biotic Regions
Australasian/Oceanian Region
Nearctic Region
Neotropical Region
Oriental Region
Palaearctic Region

Source tables: valid species per family, valid species per year, name records per family, name records per year.