In a previous post, we began the discussion about the unprecedented one-time opportunity for jump-starting Africa’s economic growth. In this post we begin to reveal what this is all about.  How this can become a tangible reality.  

Despite the many advances in technology, healthcare, education, and economy world wide, it is tragic to note that most of the world's population of young people still live in very poor conditions.

As we keep saying, the world has made giant advances in technology in the last fifty years, and this has translated into every sector. Perhaps the most significant and impactful of these advances have been in healthcare. 

According to research, people will be having fewer children in the coming decades due to a variety of factors- technology drift and possibly targeted interventions. 

Previously, we've discussed the sheer number of young people in the world today. These figures and graphs show the results of  thorough population research, and the implications of these statistics are quite staggering.

Young people are going to be central to any hope for development in the future, not just because of their sheer number alone, but also because of a number of consequential events happening at the same time: 

The world has changed a lot in the last few decades.  We’ve made great advances in civilization, and as a result, technology, healthcare, the economy and everything else have a totally different landscape today. Because of these great technological advances in all these sectors, there have been demographic changes as well. Due to breakthroughs in medicine, in developed regions, people are living longer, fewer children are dying at childbirth, and the world’s population is steadily increasing.