The population of Africa is the youngest in the world—but that is expected to change rapidly in the coming decades. Over the next three decades, the proportion of older Africans will triple across the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing three times faster than the rest of the world with an average of 4.6 births per woman in 2021. By comparison, the fertility rate in Canada was 1.3 births per ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director of Communication Department, Julie Kozack, made this known at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC during a news conference. She was speaking on the ...

B UNJU, ON THE outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, has many of the hallmarks of a new African suburb. The ...

Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 86% of the global electricity access gap in 2024, with 563 million people still living without power, according to the Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report ...

The black population of South Africa experienced a decline in fertility before any country of sub-Saharan Africa (Caldwell and Caldwell, 1993). This fact has been poorly documented for two reasons.

Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world's Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe's "widespread Christian disaffiliation" -- with Christians declining as ...