Sub-Saharan Africa is irrelevant, economically. Majority of the population engages in subsistence-level agriculture, or resource extraction for foreign companies. IQ Is measured at an average of 70 or lower: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php (partly due to inadequate nutrition and opportunities).
Corruption and poverty is widespread, and population expansion is directly tied to environmental degradation. This part of the world is one area where fewer or no children should be ideal.
The population of eg. Ghana could be 5 million (as it was as recently as 1950) instead of 50 million, there would just be more mechanization of agriculture (and substantially better quality of life for the people living there).
> Sub-Saharan Africa is irrelevant, economically. Majority of the population engages in subsistence-level agriculture, or resource extraction for foreign companies. IQ Is measured at an average of 70 or lower: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php (partly due to inadequate nutrition and opportunities).
That link seems super suspect to me because of this:
> The last place with only 56 points is occupied by Equatorial Guinea.
56 seems to be a unbelievably low number for an average. It's so low that people with that score may have trouble comprehending the concept of death (e.g. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ustat/ustat0301-01.htm: "The inability to comprehend abstract concepts may include the inability to fully understand the meaning of "death" or "murder". Morris Mason, whose I.Q. was 62-66, was executed in 1985 in Virginia after being convicted of rape and murder. Before his execution, Mason asked one of his legal advisors for advice on what to wear to his funeral."). I don't see how a society could even function with a majority like that.
Seems much more likely that a result like this reflects a flaw in the tests.
Sub Saharan African countries have population but not economy to be anything other than minor regional players. At this point it is unlikely they will be able to become industrialized and move to mid income bracket.
Emigration from Africa is likely to become huge destabilizing factor in richer countries with declining population. Similar to current Hispanic majority in California, African majority population is likely in some European countries in mid term.
This is assuming that emigration of a poor uneducated population will not result in a prospering economy.
At the very least, this hypothesis cannot be confirmed by the history of the United States, and, as a matter of fact by the prison islanders of Australia.
German population was considered to be shrinking for a long time, but in fact it keeps growing due to immigration.
Is it easy to integrate people? No. Will Europe collapse? No. Will it change? Yes. Will it continue to thrive? Most probably.
Where is the data to back this statement up? Sub-Sahara African countries have been growing by 2.5% over the last decades. Just one example.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?locations=Z...