Africa: Continent's Population to Explode to Two Billion By 2050 - Analyst

SUB-SAHARAN Africa's population is expected to hit the two-billion mark in the next four decades, which will result in more than a fifth of the world population being African, Standard Bank research analyst, Simon Freemantle, has said.

Writing in the first of a series of reports aimed at unpacking what he views as the five most prominent trends driving Africa's on-going economic and commercial reinvigoration, Freemantle said Africa's population will become much younger and more affluent.

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