Africa's population density patterns have been visualized using data from the Gridded Population of the World dataset provided by The Center for International Earth Science Information Network.

Africa, the second-largest continent in the world, is home to over 1.4 billion people and is made up of more than 30 million km². It is also home to the world's largest desert and second-largest tropical rainforest.

Pallavi Rao and Nick Routley of Visual Capitalist lay out the patterns of pop...