Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Last week, the African Union voiced support for the adoption of a map that more accurately displays Africa’s true size. Host Marco Werman speaks to one of the creators of that map — the 2018 Equal ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

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Charles Simkins considers the changes in the age distribution of the population How fast is the South African population growing? 6 April 2017 The development of the South African statistical system ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to account for more than half the global population increase until 2050.

The plight of white South Africans is part of a much larger problem.

By the time democracy came in 1994, the attempt to unscramble the South African population seemed the maddest of apartheid’s features — and the one least likely to return.