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Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa. 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 7 500 agglomerations in 50 countries. Bulk download is available from below link

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SWAC Secretariat, OECD, +33 (0)1-45-24-82-00, +33 (0)1-45-24-85-00, africapolis@oecd.org, Paris, France, 75775

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Africapolis

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04/12/2018

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http://africapolis.org

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10 years 1950-2010, 5 years from 2010

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Africapolis, SWAC/OECD

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Inhoi Heo, Spatial analyst, SWAC, 9013, inhoi.heo@oecd.org

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person

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Urban population,Urbanisation level,Number of agglomerations,Metropolitan population,Average distance between agglomerations,Share of the urban population by agglomeration size,Africapolis ID of agglomeration,Name of agglomeration,Population,Density,Built-up area
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Data is available for the 50 countries in Africa excluding Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros and Mauritius.

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Agglomerations above 10 000 inhabitants

AfricapolisAbstract

Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa. 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 7 500 agglomerations in 50 countries. Bulk download is available from below link

Africapolishttp://africapolis.orgContact person/organisation

SWAC Secretariat, OECD, +33 (0)1-45-24-82-00, +33 (0)1-45-24-85-00, africapolis@oecd.org, Paris, France, 75775

Data source(s) used

Africapolis, SWAC/OECD

Africapolishttp://africapolis.orgName of collection/source

Africapolis

Source Periodicity

10 years 1950-2010, 5 years from 2010

Source metadata

http://africapolis.org

Date last input received

04/12/2018

Unit of measure used

person

Variables collected

Urban population,Urbanisation level,Number of agglomerations,Metropolitan population,Average distance between agglomerations,Share of the urban population by agglomeration size,Africapolis ID of agglomeration,Name of agglomeration,Population,Density,Built-up area

Contact person

Inhoi Heo, Spatial analyst, SWAC, 9013, inhoi.heo@oecd.org

Geographic coverage

Data is available for the 50 countries in Africa excluding Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros and Mauritius.

Population coverage

Agglomerations above 10 000 inhabitants