2013--- The amazing, surprising, Africa-driven demographic future of the Earth, in 9 charts

.washingtonpost. ^ | July 16, 2013 | Max Fisher

[dennisw]

Traffic moves through downtown Lagos, Nigeria.

The United Nations Population Division, which tracks demographic data from around the world, has dramatically revised its projections for what will happen in the next 90 years. The new statistics, based on in-depth survey data from sub-Saharan Africa, tell the story of a world poised to change drastically over the next several decades. Most rich countries will shrink and age (with a couple of important exceptions), poorer countries will expand rapidly and, maybe most significant of all, Africa will see a population explosion nearly unprecedented in human history.

If these numbers turn out to be right – they're just projections and could change significantly under unforeseen circumstances – the world of 2100 will look very different than the world of today, with implications for everyone. It will be a place where today's dominant, developed economies are increasingly focused on supporting the elderly, where the least developed countries are transformed by population booms and where Africa, for better or worse, is more important than ever.

Here is the story of the next 90 years as predicted by UN demographic data and explained in nine charts. The charts are interactive; move your cursor over them to track and compare the data.

[dennisw]

There is no need for us to wonder what is wrong with Africa.
We have experienced African leadership ourselves.....

What I was thinking too!!! We have our own Supreme Emperor Hussein Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 

[tbw2]

China is colonizing Africa economically and politically, from using it as a dumping ground for really cheap knock off goods to buying large chunks of farmland there to mining.

[publius911]

But why do I think it not a UN prediction. .it a UN agenda..a prophecy they intend to see gets fulfilled

Fortunately, it is literally, physically impossible.
All large African cities, sustained by foreign charity, are one epidemic away from extinction.

[Verginius Rufus]

At least in Africa when they set aside land for wildlife refuges, it brings in foreign tourists to see the wildlife. Whether the country in question comes out ahead economically, I'm not sure.

We may see something similar in Nevada after the BLM drives Bundy off his ranch: the Desert Tortoise National Park. Hordes of tourists, probably thousands every year, will flock to the site to see the tortoises in their natural habitat. Schoolchildren will be taught to venerate the name of Harry Reid as a great conservationist, up there with John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot.

[1010RD]

How did their last 30 years of demographic predictions turn out?

[Altura Ct.]

Camp of the Saints comes to mind.

[1010RD]

four times the resource burden = four times the opportunity

[1010RD]

But, what if a group of liberty minded individuals were to carve out a coastal city, write a Constitution much like our own, and thrive there much like Hong Kong?

[1010RD]

You cannot overlook a culture that rationalizes raping a baby to remove your curse of AIDS.

[anton]

Sub-Saharan Africa is genetically defective. When genetic science catches up to empirical observations, Sub-Saharan Africans will be like Zombies in the gene pool.

[1010RD]

Like in Star Wars?

[dennisw]

Camp of the Saints updated 2014 includes Africans coming to Europe en masse. http://tinyurl.com/me273oq

[American Constitutionalist]

More power to them then.