Just take a look at the birth rate of last year.
Screenshot from X attributed to Visual Capitalist
we had over 132 million babies added to the world. I searched the number of deaths and the number of deaths was 63.14 million people, that's from the source below.
So that's roughly 69 million new people added to the planet.
To some this map might look like a collection of circles, but the circle sizes tell a very important story. The large circle represents India and Nigeria. In fact, next year, Nigeria will also have more babies than all of Europe combined. This is something that can't be emphasized enough.
To be frank, the old powers are all going to be old. Their populations are all becoming gray. We used to look there for everything. Now we don't. I can remember reading an article about the construction of schools in Lagos and it was impossible for to think of a lot of other nations keeping up with the growth.
Remember that this has to do with people. The locations in which they are born, shape their lives in ways that are different than where others are born. The very young people of today are largely located in the warmest and wettest places on earth and therefore have the greatest exposure to negative things. When cities are trying to build a more resilient city, especially in the areas with the greatest need, they experience much more difficulty than if they were to build one that was less resilient and still just trying to provide enough schools. I think of the pipes in my aunt's neighbourhood in Accra, Ghana. They were placed for a different time.
As for the numbers of China, they are falling which is very clear at this time. This has its own implications. The challenges for creating jobs where the majority of the people are located are going to be on the same to create jobs in those areas. Otherwise, people will have to move to find work.
As long as the financial structures and polices continue to be controlled primarily in the ageing centres of the world, the issues related to pensions will prevail, while our biggest issue is power outages, that means two different discussions taking place simultaneously. As for our capacity to get fast internet in places in Africa, although my brother says that we now have access to fast internet in places like Kumasi and it's great for him but then I find out that the bills are a problem.
The Centre is shifting and has already shifted, which we can see represented by the patterns of circles in the map above. The centre is shifting and will continue to move in the coming years, particularly as we watch new buildings being constructed in places that some maps of the cities still represent.
