Africa’s population, has increased tenfold to over 1,4 billion people on the continent.
Back in the 1900s, the population was estimated to be around 140 million in the year 1900.
The United Nations projects that by 2050, Africa’s population will reach close to 2.5 billion.
Such a figure would mean that more than 25 percent of the world’s population will be African.
In a blog by the International Monetary Fund, Andrew Stanley, from Finance and Development, suggests this projected trajectory in population could have profound economic effects and even alter the world order, with some of African states possibly emerging as new world powers.
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