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Comment by riffraff 18 hours ago

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Africa's fertility rate is dropping fast: 40 years it was above 6, 20 years ago it was above 5, and it dropped by 0.6 in the last ten years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/afr/afr...

most projections expect Africa's population to peak around 2070, which is less than the timeframe GP considered.

slaw 12 hours ago

Could you share these projections that say Africa's population is going to peak around 2070. I cannot find any.

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  • riffraff 9 hours ago

    actually I may have mis-remembered this, sorry. Possibly I was thinking of population change peaking, but I can't say for sure.

    https://population.un.org/wpp/graphs?loc=903&type=Probabilis...

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