16/07/2013
The amazing, surprising, Africa-driven demographic future of the Earth, in 9 charts
p/pThe 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, a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-global-population-growing-faster-than-thought-20130710,0,1785617.story"based on/a 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./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/the-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts/2013/07/16/02f8db30-ee03-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2eb99b70/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthe-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts%2F2013%2F07%2F16%2F02f8db30-ee03-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=The+amazing%2C+surprising%2C+Africa-driven+demographic+future+of+the+Earth%2C+in+9+charts" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthe-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts%2F2013%2F07%2F16%2F02f8db30-ee03-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=The+amazing%2C+surprising%2C+Africa-driven+demographic+future+of+the+Earth%2C+in+9+charts" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthe-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts%2F2013%2F07%2F16%2F02f8db30-ee03-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=The+amazing%2C+surprising%2C+Africa-driven+demographic+future+of+the+Earth%2C+in+9+charts" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthe-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts%2F2013%2F07%2F16%2F02f8db30-ee03-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=The+amazing%2C+surprising%2C+Africa-driven+demographic+future+of+the+Earth%2C+in+9+charts" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthe-amazing-surprising-africa-driven-demographic-future-of-the-earth-in-9-charts%2F2013%2F07%2F16%2F02f8db30-ee03-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=The+amazing%2C+surprising%2C+Africa-driven+demographic+future+of+the+Earth%2C+in+9+charts" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165669183962/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2eb99b70/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165669183962/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2eb99b70/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165669183962/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2eb99b70/a2t.img" border="0"/
