Is Africa the Next China?
Subscribe to Morning Brew s free daily newsletter here: https://bit.ly/mbwendover2 Watch Extremities at http://youtube.com/extremities Buy a Wendover Productions t-shirt: https://standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/products/wendover-productions-shirt Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): https://www.youtube.com/halfasinteresting Youtube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: wendover@standard.tv Other emails: sam@wendover.productions Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions Writing by Sam Denby Editing by Alexander Williard Animation by Josh Sherrington Sound by Graham Haerther Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster [1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPDPC@WEO/AFQ/CHN [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1223543/urbanization-rate-in-africa-by-country/ [3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274511/life-expectancy-in-africa/; https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN [4] https://population.un.org/wpp/DataQuery/ [5] https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2020/ [6] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.ENRR.FE?locations=ZG-DZ-CV-DJ-EG-LY-MA-TN; https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.ENRR.FE?locations=CN [7] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/03/26/migration-is-helping-africa-in-many-ways [8] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1231600/number-of-emigrants-from-africa/ [9] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/03/15/keep-remittances-flowing-to-africa/ [10] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/03/26/africa-is-changing-so-rapidly-it-is-becoming-hard-to-ignore [11] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/03/26/africas-population-will-double-by-2050 [12] http://www.agenta-project.eu/Jacomo/upload/media/popnet_winter_2014_final-5.pdf Select footage courtesy Getty and AP; Select imagery courtesy Geolayers; Select music courtesy Epidemic sound
