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Sub-Saharan Africa’s population forecasted to double by 2050 (UNO)

Sub-Saharan Africa’s population forecasted to double by 2050 (UNO)
Thursday, 20 June 2019 13:22

The population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to double reaching 2.12 billion in 2050 from the current 1.06 billion. The statistics is provided by the United Nations Organization in its latest World Population Prospects report issued June 17.
Population will reach 1.4 billion in 2030 and 3.78 billion from 2100. “More than half of the world's population growth will be in Africa by 2050,” according to the document.
Nigeria, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt are ranked among the Top 9 countries with highest population growth in the world. And the first country is one of the most populous with 201 million inhabitants.
According to the Under-Secretary-General for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Liu Zhenmin, “many of the fastest-growing populations are in the poorest countries.”
Globally, the world’s population will grow from 7.7 billion now to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11 billion in 2100. Another aspect observed by the UN organization is that the world’s population is aging with a growing life expectancy and dropping fertility rate. The reports found that North Africa is prone to such tendency with “the number of older persons forecasted to double by 2050.”

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