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Rank Country or territory Density Area Population (2015 est.) inh./km 2 inh./mi² km 2 mi² — Mayotte (France) 641.7 1,662 374 144 240,000 1 Mauritius 624.0 1,616 2,040
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Population density in Western Africa. Population density increased steadily from 36 per square kilometer in 1970 to 52 per square kilometer in 1984. In 1990 63 persons per square kilometer was the estimate for Ghana's overall population density. These averages did not reflect variations in population distribution.
These areas overlap with constituency boundaries in order to get reliable data for election purposes as well. [4] The 2011 Population and Housing Census counted 2,113,077 inhabitants of Namibia. Between 2001 and 2011 the annual population growth was 1.4%, down from 2.6% in the previous ten–year period. [5]
As of 2019, the total population of Africa is estimated at 1.3 billion, representing 16 percent of the world's population. [13] According to UN estimates, the population of Africa may reach 2.49 billion by 2050 (about 26% of the world's total) and 4.28 billion by 2100 (about 39% of the world's total). [13]
The population history of West Africa is composed of West African populations that were considerably mobile and interacted with one another throughout the history of West Africa. [2] Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP ( Middle Pleistocene ). [ 3 ]
Demographics of Tanzania, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in millions. According to the 2012 census, the total population was 44,928,923 compared to 12,313,469 in 1967, [2]: 1 resulting in an annual growth rate of 2.9 percent. The under 15 age group represented 44.1 percent of the population, with 35.5 percent being ...