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Africa has the most significant rate of population increase among other continents. According to the United Nations, approximately two-thirds of the prognosticated increase in population between 2020 and 2050 will occur in the African continent.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is increasing at 2.7 percent annually, more than double as rapidly as South Asia (1.2 percent) and Latin America (0.9 percent). That indicates Africa is joining the population of France every 2 years. As a result, the population of Sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to double by 2050.
Despite the fact, Asia’s population is 4 times larger, about 2 children are born every year in the African continent for each 3 in Asia. If the current growth rate like Nigeria remains, Africa’s population will duplicate by 2050. That would be 2.5 billion people, expecting more than 1/4 of the global’s people would be in the African continent. By 2100, the United Nations forecasts the population in Sub-Saharan Africa will touch 3.8 billion.
The population of Nigeria, for instance, has doubled in the last 2 decades and will double again more than 400 million by 2050. As a result, over the following thirty years, the population of Sub-Saharan Africa will grow by one billion.
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Population growth of some African nations in 2020, 2050, and 2100
Country
Population (2020), millions
Population (2050), millions
Population (2100), millions
Nigeria
206
401
733
DR Congo
90
194
362
Ethiopia
115
205
294
Tanzania
60
135
286
Egypt
102
160
225
Angola
33
77
188
Niger
24
66
165
In the future, the population of Africa may overtake the population of South and Central Asia.
Reasons for an expected doubling in population in Sub-Saharan nations include enhanced quality of life combined with no immediate decline in birth rates. It’s the same as what happened in Asia and South America sixty years ago.
