Piyotra: Africa's birth rate is falling quite a lot more quickly than expected. The UN has cut its forecast for population in 2060 by more than 100 million people down to a projection now of about 429 million. Some experts are looking at this data and thinking this is the beginning of Africa undergoing really the same kind of rapid fertility changes that East Asia did.
It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month. Oft-overlooked data suggest that Africa’s baby boom is slowing, in a “demographic transition” the world has seen before. And remembering Traute Lafrenz, the last leafleter of the “White Rose” Nazi resistance.
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