Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?
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4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Alexander examines US Secretary of State, John Kerry’s claim that 40% of the world’s workforce will be in Africa by 2050 and talks to the chief of the United Nations’ population division about its projections for 2050 and 2100. The programme also examines the final scene in The Fast and the Furious 6, the global box office sensation. How long must that runway have been at the end of the film? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts |
| 0:06.0 | and our terms of use go to BBCWorldService.com |
| 0:09.0 | slash podcasts. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the short edition of Morales. |
| 0:14.0 | First broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Morales on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.0 | The freewheeling number detectives |
| 0:24.0 | in the great statistical car chase of life. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Ruth Alexander. |
| 0:29.0 | This week we run our slide rule over the Hollywood blockbuster |
| 0:32.0 | Fast and Furious 6. |
| 0:44.0 | But first is Africa on the brink of taking over the world. |
| 0:48.0 | Loyalist Net Albert Bundy from Nigeria |
| 0:50.0 | raised a quizzical eyebrow at this claim |
| 0:53.0 | from the US Secretary of State John Kerry. |
| 0:55.0 | What I see in Africa, |
| 0:57.0 | what I see around the world are explosive numbers of young people. |
| 1:03.0 | And over the next 35 years, |
| 1:06.0 | Africa will become 40% of the entire world's workforce. |
| 1:12.0 | John Kerry addressing the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. |
| 1:16.0 | Can he really be right to say that 40% of the world's workforce |
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