Countries Resized by Population in Africa
The map of Africa redrawn so that every country and territory is the size of its population, all 338 steps from 10,000 BC to 2100 in 2 minutes.
Data sources
Our World in Data, joining HYDE 3.3 up to 1799, Gapminder for 1800 to 1949 and the UN World Population Prospects from 1950 with its medium projection from 2024, borders from Natural Earth. Before 1800 HYDE splits historians' estimates for larger old regions into today's borders. Flags show today's territories.
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