Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa.
In the next 30 years, Africa’s population is projected to double to 2.5 billion people and its urban areas will be home to an additional 950 million people. Africa’s urban transition is an opportunity to create new social, economic and environmental development models.

Are cities and governments ready?A new urban geography. What is driving urbanisation in Africa today?
Combining demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery, and other cartographic sources, it is designed to enable comparative and long-term analyses of urban dynamics—covering all 7 617 agglomerations in 50 countries.
It reveals the existence of hundreds of urban agglomerations that are not recorded in official statistics, shedding light on the singular reality of urbanisation and urban growth in Africa.

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