1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (278+ words) The world is aging at an unprecedented rate. For the first time in history, seniors outnumber young children globally. Yet Africa stands as a massive exception, and understanding why requires examining wealth inequality, cultural structures, and the hidden economics of…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (279+ words) Governments around the world are increasingly offering cash payments, tax breaks, housing subsidies and childcare support in an effort to persuade citizens to have more children as birth rates fall and populations age. Declining birth rates can strain a country's…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (363+ words) JAKKIE CILLIERS is Head of the African Futures program in the Pretoria office of the Institute for Security Studies. He is the author of Africa’s Road to Prosperity, from which this article is adapted. What the Youngest Continent Stands to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (924+ words) France's Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has warned that if deaths eventually exceed births in Maghreb countries, immigration would become the only way to maintain population growth. "We will need sub-Saharan migrants," Tunisian demographer Hassen Kassar has said. A recent…...