West Africa Image Gallery
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West Africa Population Image Gallery
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Population
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...
Settlements Growth
In the past 50 years, West Africa has been experiencing intensive urbanization, which has affected the region’s largest and smallest urban centers (Cour and Snrech, 1998).
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Population
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...
Settlements Growth
In the past 50 years, West Africa has been experiencing intensive urbanization, which has affected the region’s largest and smallest urban centers (Cour and Snrech, 1998).