A 2014 report by International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Africa Rising Harnessing the Demographic Dividend prepared by Paulo Drummond, Vimal Thakoor, and Shu Yu revealed that Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected four billion increase in the global population by 2100. And if properly harnessed can translate into higher growth and yield a demographic dividend.
Population Reference Bureau a non-profit that specialises in research data also reaffirms Africa’s population predictions that by 2030, the continent’s youth will make up 42 percent of the world’s young people.
