Annual population growth rates 1975 - 2013 by country and by urban agglomeration of over 100,000 inhabitants

With a 2015 population of 367 million (UN, 2015), West Africa is home to 5 percent of the world’s population. This is a five-fold increase in population since 1950, when 73 million people lived in the region, which makes West Africa the fastest growing of any of the world’s regions. For comparison, the world population has increased less than three-fold during the same time period. The young age...

Landscapes of West Africa: A Window on a Changing World is an atlas and unique dataset that uses time-series satellite image data and field-based photography to tell the story of wide-ranging land change across 17 countries. EROS scientists selected the years 1975, 2000 and 2013 to characterize the landscapes and create the product, which represents the broadest effort to map the region in history...