Overpopulation & Africa
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Published 2019-12-15
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For most of our history, the human population grew slowly. Until new discoveries brought us more food and made us live longer. In just a hundred years the human population quadrupled.
This led to apocalyptic visions of an overcrowded earth. But the population growth rate actually peaked in the 1960s. Since then, fertility rates have crashed as countries industrialize and develop. World population is now expected to balance out at around 11 billion by the end of the century.
But the big picture conceals the details.
Let us look at one region in particular:
Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019 it was home to a billion people living in 46 countries. Although its growth rate has slowed down in the last few decades, it is still much higher than in the rest of the world.
While some projections expect around 2.6 billion people others reckon with up to 5 billion by 2100.
Such growth would be a huge challenge for any society. But Sub-Saharan Africa is also the poorest region on earth.
So is Sub-Saharan Africa doomed? And why do the projections vary by 2.4 billion people?
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All Comments (21)
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"without generalizing, this video would be an hour long" hour long kurzgesagt video when
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As I'm living in Namibia I can say "investments" from other countries will go straight to the president and politicians' pockets, not the economy. Corruption is law here and in SA
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I love how so many more countries are getting out of the poverty that is having 7 children with only 4-5 surviving. Not only is it making you hopeful, but it also means that we can stop letting all the talent go to waste. There are so many people out there with so many qualities and ideas that society needs.
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Breeding too much when u can't afford is a disaster
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”This video would be about 1 hour long.” I would not mind that but the animators would probably commit not living anymore.
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7:15 "Sub-Saharan Africa does not need pity or gifts, but attention and fair investment." This is my favorite statement.
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The culture part is a major problem. Too many communities educate their boys all the way to university, but force the girls to drop out once they reach Grade 8.Teenage pregnancies plague those who opt to continue past Grade 8 and so do issues like poverty and getting a poor quality education in the rural schools
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Indian here, speaking of Indian population this video couldn't be more accurate. We had 4 phases in our country's population and we already had a population burst in 19's. Our population rate is significantly slowing down as our country is developing. Hopefully, soon we will be able to solve the problem of population in our country.
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Even in some parts of Europe there was a huge demographic shift since the 50s. My father has 12 siblings. I have one sister.
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I love how they warned us that they may not be completely correct at the beginning Shows that our education is more important than looking right
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As a South African, I can honestly say that our education system can have a beautiful impact on our country if implemented better.
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Africa: we have no food Also africa: lets quadruple our population
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Kurzgesagt:check out our sources. Me: the sources don't have a likeable voice actor and animated birds now do they
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Kurzgesagt: Without generalizing this video would be about an hour long Me: Yes please
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I don't comment on many videos, but this one was powerful, and really resignated with me. Thanks for making it!
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I love videos like this and I really admire your level of transparency. Especially including links to all of your sources with a full access To information.
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It's Actually true I'm from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 My father has 7 siblings But I have just one !
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My mother : 11 siblings My dad 17 siblings Me none Yup that's bangladesh
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I live in India and I think my country is very overpopulated , there are just too many people
