Yet this optimism is misplaced, as it overlooks the reasons for India’s continued population growth: not high fertility, but longer life expectancy. But those high fertility rates are turning African countries into the world’s last great harbor of young people. African countries need to work with each other to create a more integrated institutional climate that attracts private investment from abroad. Leaders of African countries must also forsake pecuniary self-interest for that of the greater good. Demographic trends are now placing Africa front and center as the one region that can sustain global growth.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 18, 2023 21:17 UTC