Why we need to talk about older people and climate change in Africa
Here are solutions to a crisis that disproportionately affects the elderly and this continent in general
30 September 2024 - 21:15
Africa is often viewed as a relatively young continent (https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/04/why-study-aging-in-africa-region-with-worlds-youngest-population.html), with less than 7% of the population over 60. But this is set to change. Declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancy mean that by 2050, the number of people over 60 in Africa is projected to triple to 235-million (https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p95_20-1.pdf) (about 9% of the African population)...
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