Africa’s urban population is the fastest growing globally. In less than 20 years from now every second person in Africa is likely to live in a town or a city (see graph). This will total about 926 ...

In One Chart, Here's Why Africa Is The Hottest Growth Opportunity Of The Century By Sam Ro 2014-01-15T16:57:00Z ...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing at 2.7% a year, which is more than twice as fast as South Asia (1.2%) and Latin America (0.9%). That means Africa is adding the population of France ...

While the extreme poverty rate will likely fall, the number of poor people will rise due to Africa’s high population growth rate. By 2030, an estimated 479 million Africans (28.1% of the population) ...

One-third of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lives in countries where GDP per capita fell in 2017 and is expected to fall further in 2018 and 2019. Meanwhile, non-resource-intensive countries ...

Demographic transition may be the biggest single opportunity for the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, but countries will only be able to enjoy the dividends if they make sufficient investment in ...

Though plenty of growth is still baked in, this could have a huge impact on Africa’s total population by 2100. It could also provide a big boost to the continent’s economic development.

This number accounts for 5 per cent of the total foreign-born population of 44.9 million. This diversified group comprises people from 51 nations with various ethnic, linguistic, and educational ...

India has overtaken China in the rank of the world's most populous nations, with over 1.46 billion people as of 2025In 2022, ...

Whenever one writes on South Africa’s massive problems such as unemployment or the relative decline in per capita income compared to other countries, many readers are quick to blame population ...

WASHINGTON DC, Jun 9 2025 (IPS) - More than half of sub-Saharan Africa's population lives in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS)--economies that face profound challenges such as stagnant ...