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Flashmag May 2018 www.flashmag.net
Moreover, there is an undeniable link between economic progress and the reduction of high birth rates, because, most countries that have experienced a high rate of economic growth have recorded a rapid fall in fertility. This is the case for countries like South Korea, Taiwan and China in Asia. In the early 1960s, these countries, had an average of 5 to 6 children per woman, a similar average in sub-Saharan Africa, today. In 15 years, the fertility of these countries has dropped by half, which corresponds to the years of their economic take-off.
Despite the fact that there is power in the number, since population growth is a development factor, It is underdevelopment that leads to overpopulation, for example, in a country, enough schooled, how many women choosing to continue higher education, at the same time would choose to have children? And better, when one is over 25 years old, with higher degrees, professional requirements in turn significantly reduce the birth rate.
The misfortune of the one who mistreats everyone is to find no friend in its misery, when a world seems to collapse and that Africa and the rest of the third world are finding new partners to team up with in the East; the West despite its technologies that is 90 percent made in Asia, is at a crossroads, while most of the resources it needs for its industry continue to come from underdeveloped countries, to survive in the coming years it will have to let go off the ballast and democratize its economic relations with the third world, if not it will lose everything, because the war in Syria has
proved that even the military domination of the West is no longer effective, as it was 10 years ago. The explosion of demography in Africa will no longer maintain dictatorships that have since pledged allegiance to the West, often sacrificing the interests of the people for their folding seats. The future is Africa, which despite the boom of its population has enough resources to evolve, if the bottlenecks of Western capitalism that strangles it are destroyed. And as far as immigration is concerned, the West will need the youth of the third world countries to pay for its retirement system with its population that is set to be even older in the next 30 years. The retirement system will run at a loss if there is not enough productive energy, no offense to the fundamental nationalism that seems to take root in the northern hemisphere.
Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr.
Journalist