Demographic Explosion in the Sahel : Dividend or Burden?
Like many other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this sub-group of West and Central African countries has experienced relatively fast drops in mortality but persistently high levels of fertility, which implies continued high rates of population gro...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/872051542125479992/Demographic-Explosion-in-the-Sahel-Dividend-or-Burden http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30952 |
| Summary: | Like many other countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa, this sub-group of West and Central African countries
has experienced relatively fast drops in mortality but
persistently high levels of fertility, which implies
continued high rates of population growth, which represent
an important challenge to development prospects. At the
micro level, families will face challenges to ensure that
their children are well educated, nourished and healthy. At
the macro level, governments will face enormous pressures to
keep pace with additional cohorts of schoolchildren to
educate, new entrants into the labor market, and a general
rise in demand for health and social services that will
outstrip the capacity of fragile systems in these countries.
The authorities in thesecountries have an important window
of opportunity for addressing demographic issues
systematically as part of their broader economic development
plans and long-term vision documents. |
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