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 population density across the continent in this infographic. It's a perfect illustration of how people gather around freshwater sources and the borders of natural barriers.
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), which is hosted by NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), produced the Gridded Population of the World dataset, which is the source of this population density data.
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