'The biggest change of our time' is happening right now in Africa

[applegrove]

'The biggest change of our time' is happening right now in Africa

Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/africas-population-explosion-will-change-humanity-2015-8#ixzz3jJ6oYAkb

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"More than half of global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa," says the United Nations report. "Of the additional 2.4 billion people projected to be added to the global population between 2015 and 2050, 1.3 billion will be added in Africa."

After 2050, Africa is projected to be the only major area that has a continually growing population, meaning that it will house 25% of the global population in 2010 and 39% in 2100.

In 1950, only 9% of the world's population was African.

Conversely, Europe is projected to have a smaller population in 2050 than in 2015.



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[applegrove]

1. Lot's of opportunity. Let us just hope this shuts up all the GOPers who say "but we don't want

population growth in Africa" when you post anything about Africa online. It is going to rock the world. And hopefully this new generation of African entrepreneurs can show what happens when they are set free. They are already stepping in where the world's corporations are too shy to invest.

[Egnever]

2. We don't want population growth anywhere IMHO

We are already overburdening the planet.

[applegrove]

4. And we slow it down by increasing the middle class.

[Egnever]

6. Not sure what that has to do with a population explosion in Africa

[applegrove]

8. There will be markets that africans can take advantage of. Already cell phones are increasing income

for rural people. They can take produce to market at the best price. Other technologies will help to. Like planting a tree that leeches nitrogen into the soil naturally. Science and Technology will pay more attention to Africa. It's issues will be worked on. It is already happening. I just hope they can put an end to corruption and such. And with all that human rights will improve. As they are improving in Asia. And women will have more choice. And then people will have 1.8 children.

[Egnever]

9. Why does that have to come with an increase in population?

[applegrove]

14. Because there is vastly less child mortality. Used to be you had to have 10 children to end up with

three into adulthood who could take care of you when you were old. The reason why you needed your kids to take care of you when you were old is because there was no savings. Nothing. It is a sign there is better health outcomes and people are better off. A bit.

[Recursion]

17. Everything. Make them richer and they have fewer children

It's the most reliable contraceptive ever developed.

[pampango]

13. Exactly what has happened in Asia where more than 1/2 of the world's population lives.

Increasing the middle class has slowed, stopped and even reversed population growth everywhere that it has occurred.

[haikugal]

5. Yep...this isn't good news for the earth.

[Throd]

3. I don't see this as a good thing. 7 billion people is enough.

[maxsolomon]

7. The end of charismatic megafauna in Africa

this will only increase the desperate poverty that is driving the poaching.

No more rhino or elephants. But that will probably happen without the population growth...

[tabasco]

12. Kiss gorillas goodbye too.

They are almost gone now.

[AngryAmish]

21. In parts of Africa getting rid of elephants means more crops.

Thet can eat a lot of food.

[msongs]

10. free condoms and pregnancy prevention for everyone...everywhere nt

[applegrove]

11. Yes. That is important. Right now it is not the case in many rural parts.

[Recursion]

16. The most effective contraceptive in human history is economic development

Nothing has lowered birth rates as consistently and as much as that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. This is based on the UN Population Division, who think people are going to migrate less and less

and just sit in their present countries and grow at amazing rates.

Their guesses are available here: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/

They think Niger's net emigration rate, which was nearly 3 per 1000 in the 1980s, and is now 0.3 per 1000, will decrease to 0.1 per 1000 by 2060, although they would have a population of 96 million, about 5 times what it is now. And that's in a country that is mostly desert, and thus not realistic for expanding into, and already has frequent food crises from drought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Niger_food_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Sahel_famine

And then you need to add on the disruptive effects of climate change ...

[romanic]

18. And what will happen to the flora and fauna of the African continent?

And the poverty rates? And the corrupted governments? And Boko Haram? And.....

All this growth is going to take it's toll, one way or another.

[bemildred]

19. "If present trends continue."

Which they will not.

[applegrove]

20. My point is that it will be a multi-polar world instead

of a eurocentric one. The best things from all over the world will be shared.

[bemildred]

22. Yes, that's already here, but present trends will not, can not, continue.

There will be new trends, like every week or so. All this talk about "progress", and then people act and think like all of this around us now is permanent. Ha. Even ten years ago everything was different. We had not even completely destroyed Iraq yet.

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."