Continent · 51 countries
Where Africa's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Africa. By land, Madagascar holds 2.1%. By people, it holds 25%. Libya goes the other way, from 5.6% of the land to 0.40% of the people. By GDP, Egypt punches above its population: 5.7% of the people, 20% of the economy.
| Country | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madagascar | 2.1 | 25 | 8.4 |
| Nigeria | 2.8 | 11 | 14 |
| Ethiopia | 3.7 | 6.5 | 4.0 |
| Egypt | 3.3 | 5.7 | 20 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 7.6 | 5.4 | 1.7 |
| Sudan | 6.3 | 3.8 | 1.4 |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 3.0 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
| South Africa | 4.5 | 3.0 | 8.7 |
| Kenya | 1.9 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| Uganda | 0.78 | 2.6 | 1.6 |
| Algeria | 7.4 | 2.3 | 7.5 |
| Mozambique | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.70 |
| Angola | 4.2 | 1.9 | 3.0 |
| Morocco | 2.0 | 1.9 | 3.6 |
| Ghana | 0.78 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| Cameroon | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| Ivory Coast | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Niger | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.99 |
| Burkina Faso | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.60 |
| Mali | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.80 |
| Malawi | 0.39 | 1.1 | 0.40 |
| Zambia | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.80 |
| Chad | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| Senegal | 0.59 | 0.90 | 0.89 |
| Zimbabwe | 1.1 | 0.90 | 0.60 |
| Benin | 0.49 | 0.80 | 0.60 |
| Somalia | 1.5 | 0.80 | 0.20 |
| Burundi | 0.10 | 0.70 | 0.10 |
| Guinea | 0.78 | 0.70 | 0.60 |
| Rwanda | 0.10 | 0.70 | 0.50 |
| S. Sudan | 2.1 | 0.70 | 0.10 |
| Tunisia | 0.49 | 0.60 | 1.7 |
| Togo | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.30 |
| Central African Republic | 2.0 | 0.40 | 0.20 |
| Libya | 5.6 | 0.40 | 0.89 |
| Sierra Leone | 0.39 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Liberia | 0.39 | 0.30 | 0.10 |
| Mauritania | 3.5 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Republic of the Congo | 1.2 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Eritrea | 0.59 | 0.20 | 0.00 |
| Somaliland | 0.49 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
| Botswana | 1.8 | 0.10 | 0.50 |
| Djibouti | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0.29 | 0.10 | 0.30 |
| Gabon | 0.98 | 0.10 | 0.50 |
| Gambia | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Guinea Bissau | 0.29 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Lesotho | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Namibia | 2.7 | 0.10 | 0.30 |
| Swaziland | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Western Sahara | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
How the map is made
Regions are drawn on an equal-area grid of about 1,000 blocks. For land, each region keeps the blocks its territory covers. For people and GDP, the country is reshaped so every region gets a whole number of blocks in proportion to its share (Hamilton's largest-remainder method), keeping neighbours next to each other. Then every block is matched to one block on the next map, so you watch the same thousand blocks rearrange.
Grids: popgrid by Josep Ferrer (MIT). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Population: national censuses where curated, GHS-POP 2025 (JRC, European Commission) elsewhere. GDP: Kummu et al. 2025 gridded GDP PPP (CC BY 4.0). Built by Crafter Station.