>>177126529>this will change as africa will be very interesting in near futureAfrica is just late catching up to fertilisers, that's why pics like your's that start at 1950 are misleading. Check out the estimated demographics at 1500, 1000 or 0, it's the same as what's projected for the future.
>>177126529>the technological gap is becoming smaller and smallerIt's actually becoming bigger, now with deglobalisation they will fall further behind. Only massive unions like the OECD can support high tech. The USSR had spies that stole US chip technology and despite pouring billions into it even with former Intel and IBM engineers they could not build up a chip industry and it will be the same story for China. The free market democratic system with patent rights is the only proven system that progress technology.
>>177126529>countries will become very very old in near futureChina and South Korea are already "very very old". I'd rather live there than in Nigeria.
>no where in european history you had birthrates this low and median age this highThat's not true. It has always oscillated around replacement in fact. Urban populations have always had 1.2 children on average. The rural population is just as high as ever.
Modern medicine and the industrial revolution allowed for a population boom that is already normalising to the new capacity. The fear mongering is funded by real estate investors hunting cheap growth and employers hunting cheap labour.
