Number of countries: 22 (2006)
Population: 339,292,000 (2004)

Countries included in the West Africa Region:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa (Zaire), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Regional warfare and governance trends are presented for ten politically-relevant "neighborhood" contexts
(click the hyperlinks in the table below to view other regional graphs):