Africa will dominate global population dynamics in the 21st century. While public attention is focused on Asia as a fast-growing and prospering market with currently 4.5 billion inhabitants, today ...

Economic “miracles” depend to a large degree on the right demographics: having more working-age people than young and old. When you hit that sweet spot, known as a “demographic dividend ...

The UN DESA shows Africa’s population will grow by 154 percent from 1.49 billion in January 2024 (equivalent to 18.3 percent of world population) to 3.8 billion in January of the year 2100 ...

Opinion - Africa has the fastest-growing and most youthful population in the world. Over 40 percent are under the age of 15 and 20 percent are between the ages of 15 and 24 which corresponds to ...

A 2014 report by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Africa Rising Harnessing the Demographic Dividend prepared by Paulo Drummond, Vimal Thakoor, and Shu Yu revealed that Africa will account for ...

Together with the AU, along with the African Development Bank and other partners, UNFPA helped to develop the AU’s Roadmap on the Demographic Dividend, which was endorsed at the AU Summit in ...

In 1957, when Ghana became the first African country to win its independence, there were 6.05m Ghanaians and some 200m people living in sub-Saharan Africa. Today Ghana’s population has more than ...

Wanted: Investors for young, hot and thirsty continent. Population to double in 40 years. Poor, but less than it was. Interested parties must think long term.

In addition to demographic change, both income and consumption at each age influence the rate of change of the support ratio, and the magnitude of the demographic dividend. South Africa differs in ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Demographics and population news every morning. A few years ago, John Magufuli, the late former president of Tanzania, exhorted ...