The African Population Boom of the 21st Century

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Seems like it's more Africa's problem than mine.  Have they considered trying a better economy, that seems to stop population growth better than anything.

1. Refugee crises

Yeah. It seems unlikely that all 390 million Congolese people are going to stay in a country which has historically been subject to rapacious attacks from outside inciting conflict and civil wars, not just from Europeans and Arabs but even other African countries.

[EPG]

I don't think historic census results in many African countries can be taken as gospel, it would be better to use other sources to look at historic trends. Compare to the question "how many people live in Karachi".

[EPG]

Mostly, famines have the proximate cause of unwillingness to distribute food, and the underlying cause is usually either poverty, or a desire to reduce or physically weaken subject populations (per Amartya Sen). If Africa's population is being sustained by economic growth, like 19th century Europe, that's not so conducive to famine as long as short-term food aid gets in.

[EPG]

Most of the latter were not so much colonised as colonies, with almost no indigenous population pre-1800 compared to now.