A new map of nearly all of Africa shows exactly where the continent’s 1.3 billion people live, down to the meter, which could help everyone from local governments to aid organizations.

Facebook has created AI-based population maps before, but it's now generating them on a truly massive scale. The social site is releasing new, ultra-detailed population density maps that cover the ...

The continent's population could drop 14% by the century's end. By 2100, the world is expected to have 10.9 billion inhabitants. About 4.2 billion of those are likely to live in Africa.

Africa's urban population is expected to triple in the next 50 years, according to the United Nations, which has set a goal of ensuring universal access to affordable housing by 2030.

Two years after surpassing a population of 8 billion in 2022, the number of people on this planet has grown much faster in some countries than others. As part of the United States government's ...

Prior to the DS-I Africa program, the Human Heredity & Health in Africa (H3Africa) program enabled the establishment of new scientific collaborations to develop genomics research infrastructure.