West Africa is unlikely to be targeted. It contains 0.37 billion people. Aggregated, Africa has 1.2 billion people, many of whom would survive. South America, t

West Africa is unlikely to be targeted. It contains 0.37 billion people. Aggregated, Africa has 1.2 billion people, many of whom would survive. South America, too, is unlikely to see substantial targeting -- 0.42 billion people. Indonesia alone is 0.26 billion people. A nuclear exchange would be really bad, but a lot, in absolute terms, of people will survive the initial exchanges.