Africa's baby-boom: Population to double by mid-century

[ElPunto]

A new report says 2.4 billion people will inhabit Africa by 2050. Growth will triple in some African nations.

 

Africa’s population is predicted to more than double to 2.4 billion people by 2050 according to a new study that also raises questions about whether efforts to lift the continent out of poverty may be in vain.

 

The 10 countries with the world’s highest fertility rates are all in sub-Saharan Africa, where mothers have an average of 5.2 children, according to a report released Thursday from the Washington DC-based Population Research Bureau.

 

In Niger, which has the world's fastest population growth rate, women give birth to an average of 7.6 children, four times the US figure of 1.9.

 

“Rapid population growth makes it difficult for economies to create enough jobs to lift large numbers of people out of poverty,” said Wendy Baldwin, the organization's president.

 

Seven of the 10 countries with the highest fertility rates also appear among the bottom 10 on the United Nations’ Human Development Index.

 

But Africa is also home to seven of the world’s fastest growing economies, points out Julia Schünemann, director of the Africa Futures Project at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

 

“Rapid population growth is clearly going to increase pressure on Africa’s governments to deliver education, health care, security and, most importantly jobs,” she says.

 

“But it should be seen as an opportunity, too," Ms. Schünemann adds. "African countries also have the world’s fastest economic growth rates. The question is, can those economies grow quickly enough to offset the demands of population growth. In general, I don’t think we should be too pessimistic.”

 

International aid agencies are increasingly focusing efforts in Africa on family planning by advising governments how to increase access to contraceptives and helping women choose when to have children.

 

But this is unpopular in some countries, especially where religious doctrines that frown on contraception hold sway with government leaders.

 

Projections in the Population Research Bureau study assume that “family planning will become widespread” in Africa, says Carl Haub, co-author of the report.

 

“If not, Africa’s population will grow more rapidly, further constraining efforts to address poverty, create jobs, and protect the environment,” he says.

 

By 2050, many African states will likely more than double in population. Kenya will rise from 44 million to 97 million people, and Nigeria from 174 million to 440 million.

 

Some nations will nearly triple their growth, the reports finds. Somalia will have 27 million people in 2050, up from an estimated 10 million today; the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 71 million population is predicted to rise to 182 million.

 

The total number of people on the continent is predicted to rise from 1.1 billion to 2.4 billion.

 

The report gave 20 different indicators for more than 200 countries. It found that US mothers give birth to an average of 1.9 children. Bosnia-Herzegovina has the world’s lowest birth rate of 1.2 children.

 

The world’s population is forecast to increase from roughly 7.1 billion today to more than 9.7 billion in 2050, the report calculated.

 

India, currently the second most populous country in the world, will overtake China to become the most populous by 2030, it was estimated. By 2050, India’s population will be 1.6 billion and China’s 1.3 billion.

 

The US population was estimated to rise from 316 million to 400 million over the same period.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/africas-baby-boom-population-double-mid-century-155438150.html

[ElPunto]

Why is it white people are obsessed about the reproductive tendencies of darker people?

 

Anyway we got plenty of room if not much of a leadership.

 

 

 

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[Naxar Nugaaleed]

Do you just dislike white people or are you really that ignorant about the Negative consequence of overpopulation

[kickz]

Nonsense, as if its the Government's place to clothe, feed and provide jobs for these people. What a bunch of socialist hogwash.

[Mad_Mullah]

Somalia does not have overpopulation. We have the exact opposite. Unable to build cities because of our small population (too much room too little people). 27 million by 2050 is beautiful.

[ElPunto]

Naxar Nugaaleed;977226 wrote:

Do you just dislike white people or are you really that ignorant about the Negative consequence of overpopulation

White people have been talking about overpopulation since Malthus - enough of the Chicken Little act. What's interesting is that some skinny who arrived not more than 25 years ago is parroting this. Go figure.

[Wiil Cusub]

Mad_Mullah;977234 wrote:

Somalia does not have overpopulation. We have the exact opposite. Unable to build cities because of our small population (too much room too little people). 27 million by 2050 is beautiful.

Yee and how many Oromo's will be 2050 in our country. If Ethiopia grows from 90 to 250 million. Iska eeg yaanu daadku ku qaadine D;)

[Mad_Mullah]

Wiil Cusub;977251 wrote:

Yee and how many Oromo's will be 2050 in our country. If Ethiopia grows from 90 to 250 million. Iska eeg yaanu daadku ku qaadine D;)

That's a danger wallahi. Overpopulation in their countries and then they see a half empty Somalia. Inshallah their cousins in Somaliland will help them out

[Che -Guevara]

Economic prosperity will reserve population growth. Can Africa become an economic power house considering it's resource and labor rich.

[Mad_Mullah]

No. Not as long as we have bush savages killing each other.

[kickz]

ElPunto;977244 wrote:

White people have been talking about overpopulation since Malthus - enough of the Chicken Little act. What's interesting is that some skinny who arrived not more than 25 years ago is parroting this. Go figure.

Lol gotta love these brain washed Farraxs in attempt to be "progressive" parrot any kind of western ideology.

[Hobbesian_Brute]

ElPunto;977244 wrote:

White people have been talking about overpopulation since Malthus - enough of the Chicken Little act. What's interesting is that some skinny who arrived not more than 25 years ago is parroting this. Go figure.

your an *****, read something before you talk. The west feeds your broke, incompetent *** already, who needs millions who can't even feed themselves and will be a burden in the future. climate change will also hit africa severely reducing arable and grazing lands, already happening. millions of unemployed youth currently will only swell further destabilizing countries and pushing them into conflicts. do you need a cadaan to tell you the obvious ? the world has finite resources and we need to keep our numbers in check or we can breed like flies and die like flies.

[Tallaabo]

Mad_Mullah;977252 wrote:

That's a danger wallahi. Overpopulation in their countries and then they see a half empty Somalia. Inshallah their cousins in Somaliland will help them out

Hargeisa is already half Oromo

[Wiil Cusub]

Tallaabo;977286 wrote:

Hargeisa is already half Oromo

True when you add some laandheere who originated from oromo and now seems them selves from Arabia

[metta]

There is no such thing as over population. It's a myth pushed by people who have a problem with the have nots of society. It's an excuse to just exterminate the sick, the poor, the Africans, the disabled, the homosexuals and the crippled.

 

But I don't agree with this for Africa. We are not utilizing the resources we have. 7 billion can live in Texas whereas not even 500 million can live in Africa.

 

If we were richer, if we can feed ourselves, if we were developed, then we should welcome this population doubling. Africa can host 50 billion if we were developed. How can we support a doubling of our population when we don't have the infrastructure, the health care facilities, a proper education system for the people living right now? We can't even educate the people we have now. We can't give provide medical attention to the very sick in Africa. How in the hell can we do this with double our population.

 

Africa cannot support this doubling of population. Especially Somalia. I am an advocator of a 100 million Somalis in East Africa but its just not possible. We can't even look after the 10 million right now. There is no infrastructure in Somalia. We have famines for god sake in 2013. We need to stop making babies at the moment until we fix our situation