Explained: How booming population is challenging Africa | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: How booming population is challenging Africa | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Bloomberg |Published: May 17, 2019 12:27:40 pm

Explained: How booming population is challenging Africa

Will the benefits of a more crowded Africa outweigh the drawbacks, or are its problems too dire and its governance too weak?

It’s not clear how governments will manage the boom and whether the path to prosperity followed by other developing regions is still available. (Representational Image)

The world’s developed economies are facing a decline in fertility so pronounced that some will see their populations — and economies — shrink in years ahead. Sub-Saharan Africa faces the opposite situation: its population has more than doubled in the past three decades and is expected to triple again by the end of this century.