Overpopulation & Africa
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
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For most of our history, the human population grew slowly. Until new discoveries brought us more food and made us live longer. In just a hundred years the human population quadrupled.
This led to apocalyptic visions of an overcrowded earth. But the population growth rate actually peaked in the 1960s. Since then, fertility rates have crashed as countries industrialize and develop. World population is now expected to balance out at around 11 billion by the end of the century.
But the big picture conceals the details.
Let us look at one region in particular:
Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019 it was home to a billion people living in 46 countries. Although its growth rate has slowed down in the last few decades, it is still much higher than in the rest of the world.
While some projections expect around 2.6 billion people others reckon with up to 5 billion by 2100.
Such growth would be a huge challenge for any society. But Sub-Saharan Africa is also the poorest region on earth.
So is Sub-Saharan Africa doomed? And why do the projections vary by 2.4 billion people?
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3 mins ago?!
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No way you’re here
"without generalizing, this video would be an hour long"
*hour long kurzgesagt video when*
Drawing their animations takes Kurzgesagt a lot of time. It's simply not the type of video format they make
it wount be 'kurz' gesagt anymore
....langegesagt?
Also kurzgesagt literally means "shortly said"
@@paxpacis2 thankyou!
As I'm living in Namibia I can say "investments" from other countries will go straight to the president and politicians' pockets, not the economy. Corruption is law here and in SA
Couldn't have said it better my friend, I know how u feel, governments are corrupt and people are scared of these corrupt governments because they control everything
Kenya too.
I never thought of Kenya to be bad🤔
@@tash_g honestly guys what's going on in Africa? We're better than this. Why is everyone in power so selfish
@@armaansewduth4261 oh! It is bad! We have corruption scandals at least every week. But nothing ever happens
I love how so many more countries are getting out of the poverty that is having 7 children with only 4-5 surviving. Not only is it making you hopeful, but it also means that we can stop letting all the talent go to waste. There are so many people out there with so many qualities and ideas that society needs.
THIS!!!
Indian here, speaking of Indian population this video couldn't be more accurate. We had 4 phases in our country's population and we already had a population burst in 19's. Our population rate is significantly slowing down as our country is developing. Hopefully, soon we will be able to solve the problem of population in our country.
I think we doing great not need worry
Muslim population is exploding
As another Indian
Overpopulation is not a real thing
We can easily afford to house, feed and educate our citizens just that we don't
We are not growing fast We are declining in quality
@@Commielover69 I'm crying are you educated??? Or did you not pay attention to your geography classes??
@@gunny4394 geography 💀
Even in some parts of Europe there was a huge demographic shift since the 50s. My father has 12 siblings. I have one sister.
Here in Brazil my mom has 11 siblings, I have one, my dad has two.
Same here, both mom and dad had around ten siblings. I have 3.
Edited comment as I keep getting notifications when I have nothing against old people and ageing populations.
I’m third gen Mexican American
my mom was one of 9 siblings, my dad one of 4, and I am an only child
I'm born in indonesia living in the netherland now. My mom has 8 siblings. I have 3 brothers.
”This video would be about 1 hour long.”
I would not mind that but the animators would probably commit not living anymore.
What if to make it an hour long, it was more like a slide show with a few primitive animations?
Next Kurzgesagt video: The plight of professional web animators.
Nobody should ask animators to make videos as long as one hour.
😂😂😂
Commit not live
The culture part is a major problem. Too many communities educate their boys all the way to university, but force the girls to drop out once they reach Grade 8.Teenage pregnancies plague those who opt to continue past Grade 8 and so do issues like poverty and getting a poor quality education in the rural schools
I love videos like this and I really admire your level of transparency. Especially including links to all of your sources with a full access To information.
7:15
"Sub-Saharan Africa does not need pity or gifts, but attention and fair investment."
This is my favorite statement.
ghana's president already has an impact
Electric Angel No, bad. Follow Botswana’s example. They’re the least corrupt country in Africa, beating out countries like South Korea and Italy, they’re very prosperous, beating out China in GDP per Capita, and have strong democratic traditions. They’re the alternative to the authoritarianism in Rwanda.
@@Edmonton-of2ec if there is hope in Africa, then it's Botswana
@@CBRN-115Did you watch the video, or did you just come on here to make your uninformed statement? ^^
I would really like to know, how we can really help sub saharan Africa. I heard that donating food or cloth do more harm than good, because they only cure the symptoms. I think we have to help Africa building a strong econemy. That said, we should not force african states into free trade agreements. I live in europe and I know that our agriculture is being subventioned very agressivly. Products like milk are then being importet from europe because the milk from african farmers just can't compete.
Kurzgesagt:check out our sources.
Me: the sources don't have a likeable voice actor and animated birds now do they
arthillidan mc yee
mood
Lol
hihih. so you summarized by main interest xD
Also: Music!
@arthillidan mc the resason that those are the qualities that attract you are the same reasons this video exists.
As a South African, I can honestly say that our education system can have a beautiful impact on our country if implemented better.
We still have loadshedding
@floppygames6930 true😢, load shedding is the worse
@@QUESTYOURLIFEwhats load shedding?
I don't comment on many videos, but this one was powerful, and really resignated with me. Thanks for making it!
Seriously. Why are we making videos like this? This topic was a nightmare. How do you talk about a continent as diverse as Africa, to explain larger trends? Not only is there a wide variety of sources, experts disagree with each other on what they can predict about the future. So the time we took to rewrite this script over and over was insane.
Still, there is no chance this video won’t make people angry, on all sides of this issue. Some may not agree with the conclusions we have come to. Some will think there are other aspects we could and should have mentioned. Or lament that we generalized too much.
But we had to generalize or this video would just have become a hour-long documentary. And we think the topic is too important to not discuss it.
So we read a lot and talked too many experts with very different opinions and interpretations. Also we tried to prepare our sources in a way that walks you through our thought process and helps you to make up your own mind.
This video was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of a Grant. They did not take part in the production of the video though.
Sources and comments: sites.google.com/view/sourcesoverpopulationandafrica
Please become my science teacher
How can the comment be 1 day ago if the video came 2 min before
Are you releasing videos more often or is that just me?
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell all hail two vids per month
Its okay, your channel is called "Kurzgesagt" (Said shortly) after all. We generally don't expect/need you to present the full complexities of an issue :) There's other sources for that. (Btw. why is the comment older than the video?)
It's Actually true
I'm from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
My father has 7 siblings
But I have just one !
It's story of rest of South Asia nation also.
@@sumitroy3483 I agree!
my mother has 5 siblings, my father has 5 too. I only have 1
My father has 13 siblings, my mother has 8 but i have just 1.
Im from Brazil
@@rafaeldearaujo12 that's wrong af
Africa: we have no food
Also africa: lets quadruple our population
Western countries: Exploit Africa
Also western countries: Why Africa have no food?
blaming whites for your failures every time.@@quantisticman8415
@@elpaso4765blaming the colonization and neo-colonization of africa is not just blaming white people, its blaming the countrys and corpations that are profiting from africa which is america and europe but also china for their loan sharking and buying of african ports.
Ew a malthusian🤢
@@elpaso4765 So all white people are are the reason why africa is being exploited?
2yrs too late but man your video does wonders for my projects, thank you so much.
I love how they warned us that they may not be completely correct at the beginning
Shows that our education is more important than looking right
It's just a disclosure to avoid youtube drama, they had a lot of it in the past because of some youtubers that believe to be too smart for their own good.
The reason for this is because Kurzgesagt got caught a couple years ago inserting personal positions and using iffy sources. They made a video about this called "Can you trust Kurzgesagt?"
Technically, if we ate the poor (canablism), we would solve poverty, world hunger and over population simultanously, and since you are what you eat, canables are the only humans.
@@Raymond160 are humans healthy to eat?
@@Raymond160 That is not ethical. By that I mean what the majority of humanity defines as "ethical" in 2019 where everyone is, allegedly, equal and anyone has a right to voice their thoughts, again, allegedly.
My mother : 11 siblings
My dad 17 siblings
Me none
Yup that's bangladesh
how do you keep up with all your uncles and aunts?
More and more of the world is figuring it out. Hopefully Africa can do the same.
It's already the case. Stop fantasizing about Africa
he said average xD
My friend's grandad: 7 siblings.
My friend's dad: 8 siblings.
My friend: 10 siblings.
Pennsylvania Dutch people for some reason haven't had much of a significant drop in fertility rates.
Thank you so much for all the work you put into educating us! :)
Since this video released in 2019 the population of Africa has gone from 1.3 to 1.4 billion. So nearly 8% in 2 years.
Too little for the second largest continent, this guy is just crazy and has delusions of africa
That a bad sign , big demographic increase without an increase of GDP and standard of living create an unemployed young population that'll be the source of instability (the same thing happens in the middle East ; corrupted and untrustworthy leaders help too).
I live in DR Congo and the great lakes region is the region filled with militias commiting atrocities and the region is also the most densely populated of the country .
I love how all the scientist birds were arguing at the beginning.
the birds are very cute, it makes me sad every time one dies ;-;
1:33 this one right?
@11 11 wtf
Jebbidan was a great time for you and I wanna is a time for us we are just getting to our place to go get to our new place so we get to our place to get you guys to come and get it and get some stuff done for the kids and I will have to get them to you get them to me and my kids are going to be there and I will have them to unlock the door and get them to you get them to me and my kids are going to be there and I will have a lot to say bye 👋 I wanna is that time for us and you get the girls that they can take out for a few years or
11 11 ok boomer
Looking forward to the new channel Langgesagt
Say what?
großes gehirn deutsch witz
@@TechboyFK this channel is a german channel and kurzgesagt means "in a nutshell". In video he said that without generalizing the video it would be an hour long. So langessagt means "in a long way" well dont judge me pls im not a native speaker pls dont hurt me
@@samettekin2356 kurz = short
Gesagt = past tense of say, or said.
Shortly said or short summation would be a closer translation.
@@samettekin2356 In a nutshell - In a nutshell
A big problem in Africa is that it gets heavily exploited whenever it takes a serious step in the right direction
Like Libya, got invaded by NATO for cheaper oil when it was the most prosperous nation in Africa😭
yeah, exactly. nobody cares enough to defend them because it wouldn’t benefit them.
So true
I mean no??? I'm pretty sure its mostly US fighters and Turkish support in Libya (if that) and the Libyan Civil War is more about the government vs the army as far as i'm aware. Gaddafi was assassinated yes, but he wasn't a good leader, he was a dictator.
Lol what, Libya was only prosperous to its dictator Gaddafi and his elites. The average Libyan was still poor and constantly suffering.
@@spacecraftcarrier4135 And they are much better now...are they?
Animation and illustrations are so clean and impressive
it was short lived but none the less an amazing feeling to have my little country "Botswana" mentioned on one of my favorite UA-cam channels...
Yes Kurzgesagt, you have loyal follows everywhere.
the north south africa
Botswana is not a small country. It's rarely mentioned though tbh
Compared to the US it is relatively small
I read that Botswana has adopted market policies and now is one of the most growing countries in Africa. Is it true?
There are sources that could be used to verify if this is true or not
Coming from South Korea here, this video has a very legitimate point in my family history. My grandfather had 6 siblings, and 3 of them died before reaching adulthood. My father has 2 siblings, all of whom are alive and with children today. I am an only child, and I seem to be alive right now. Education wise, My grandfather finished only middle school, even though he was the eldest son and got more resources(none of his siblings received any education). My dad went to college, and now I am aiming for a degree. My, how times change.
Korea got colonized, exploited and culturally suppressed. Shortly after getting independent it had a big war which destroyed the country even more. In the 1950s it was one of the poorest countries in the world. And the big share of industry was in the socialist north. Also the country had no natural resources. So it relied mostly on smart decision making and they turned from one of the poorest countries to one of the richest and is a leading nation in technology.
Africa on the other hand had a lot of intact infrastructure of it's colonial era and is extremely rich on resources. Yet they did make hardly any progress. Africa replaced it colonial exploiters by domestic exploiters and people willingly buy into the story that today's misery is exclusively caused in it's colonial era.
I wish Africa all the best and I think there are many people great people living there. But Africa needs to start taking responsibility for itself. Korea did from a worse position and it paid off.
@@jellyorwhat3343 Thank you for highlighting our nation's recent history and development(I mean, I'm quite impressed)! As for African dictatorship's case, I think your opinion that African nations themselves have to start developing instead of blaming others is valid, but I also think it only tells half of the story(no offense!). I actually believe that it's the resources themselves that is hindering African development. Most (I'm severely generalizing here) African dictators sell their resources to foreign nations and use that revenue to keep the army loyal without any need for citizen involvement. That's why they dont have the incentive to educate, house, and develop their poor population. Korea, on the other hand, also suffered under a ruthless dictatorship, yet because we didn't have much resources to sell, our dictators were forced to educate, house, and develop the people in order to maintain a strong and loyal standing army(which was especially neccesary because of the North). It also helped that we didn't suffer any civil conflict after 1953, since our population was mostly ethnically homogenous. African statess, on the other hand, was mostly composed of many different nations who were often at odds with each other, who were forced into the same boundaries by European colonizers. The resulting near-constant state of civil war was a disaster for an already impoverished region. So if I were to blame anyone, it would be the African dictators who don't give a shit about their people, and the European powers also had a role to play. Emmanuel Macron's apology to Algeria was definitely a step in the right direction.
"and I seem to be alive right now"
this part gives me a strange feeling.
@@lukas_6924 lol, that was a bit of a joke
@@jellyorwhat3343 “A lot of infrastructure” what the fuck are you talking about?
Really good video, glad to see you do something on such the... interesting continent which I live
I live in India and I think my country is very overpopulated , there are just too many people
especially mumbai
Every 60 seconds in africa, a minute passes.
Together we can help stop this.
Please spread the word
Why
Thank you for your attention
I am touched by this.
I agree
Kurzgesagt: Without generalizing this video would be about an hour long
Me: Yes please
I'd donate to a Kurtzgesagt documentary of 10 hours, or a Netflix series of 40-60 minute videos. Imagine the possibilities. ;O "Langegesagt"
Animation Team sanity: Please no
@@CasparAbelmann After 10 straight hours you would probably *BECOME* one of their toons ;)
@@treborironwolfe978 I'm in. I want to be a kurzegesagt bird.
If I donate, I want to be a cat, not a bird.
Thanks for the video!
Another great video. I liked the way they presented the content with a tiny grain of salt. It is a very sensitive subject when it comes to Africa in general
As I read it, Africa actually has a lot of arable land and has the capacity to feed itself, but mismanagement and lack of infrastructure means they can't utilize it to the fullest.
Seriously. The myth of it being bad for growing crops is absurd. If it wasn't for the Tsetse fly the continent would have boomed
tribalism is getting in the way of development. the idea "my god is better than yours, my culture is stronger, muscular than yours"...this mentality prevents communities from working together and only results in battles. Scandinavian countries aren't so like this and have developed fast in short time.
@@iratepirate3896 are you a troll, if it wasn't for european colonies and overall technological transfer enabled by globalization these people would be living in mud huts mostly.
@@06wrxRAR tribalism existed in every corner of the world at one time or another. There are other factors at play.
You know that Zimbabwe used to be a nice place to live in before white farmers had their farms taken away from them, the same thing is going to happen in south Africa. You know what's common in both of those situations? Racism
"Sub saharan africa does not need pity or gifts, but attention and fair investment"
Brilliant book called Dead Aid about this. Aid has trapped millions in a cycle of dependency
@@sharp14x HaHaHa sO FuNnY
@@sharp14x Mr Freeman calm down
@@sharp14x And you need a check-up from the neck up.
@@sharp14x So edgy and quirky
The detail! The beauty. Thank you 🥰
Great video Krugsgesagt and I like your videos so much :]
"But without generalizing a little bit, this video would be an hour long."
Hi, I'm ready!
Hi ready, i'm dad
@@azalakhir918 Hi dad, I'm dad!
@@zhg4485 We know, son
But animators don't look ready...
South Asian nations in the 1970s: Let’s gradually and indirectly shift the children birth rate so that our society can adapt
China in the 1970s: One, take it or leave it.
Michael Zheng "Genocide is moral when Women are killing children out of convenience." - Leftists
UntamedPandaSweg dawg either of these options is heavily left leaning also so what’s your point
UntamedPandaSweg also anything can sound bad when you spin it that way language is immensely powerful after all. Throwing your opinions out wherever you feel like makes you sound foolish
@@untamedpandasweg8986
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
China is doing it right.
Great video!!! :D
Agreed, the topic is very complex so that short video was really awesome for what it could tell.
But I wish I could learn more on what allows the pattern of corrupt leaders and warlords consistently coming into power around Africa. A lot of countries around the world have had their fair share of absurdly corrupt and even outright evil leaders but somehow in the recent century they've proliferated in the continent and they do so much damage to their countries and the people in it.
They sooner or later fall from grace, but then are replaced by others. I'm not an expert but it's plain to see that if this could be remedied, a lot of good will come of it.
Of course I won't ask it of Kurzgesagt owing to its controversial nature, but if anyone can share their knowledge and expertise on the matter I would appreciate it. I'm truly curious and I hope I can get some sincere perspective.
“Without generalizing a little bit, this video would be an hour long.”
You say that like that’s not what we want.
Well, the animators have lives too...
They're called "In a Nutshell" :P
@@kimik-sb1bc Lol
No. He has got a point
@@jasonlewis4438 Could be a coconut.
As a Bangladeshi, I would like to thank Kurzgesagt for mentioning the progress Bangladesh has been making over last few decades. I would like to add one thing. Bangladesh went through a devastating war and genocide in 1971, yet it was able to not let itself crippled by the consequences. I am certain that Sub-Saharan African countries too will show same extent of resilience toward progress.
Dam your smart , what's your snap?
Thanks for the awesome words man 😎
I think African countries are under the thumb of IMF-World Bank from debt, which leads to austerity measures as well as the export of raw materials and agricultural products for paying the debt instead of measures to improve society. How did Bangladesh get away from them, if they did?
@@Juanmaligno you're*
@@sandal_thong8631 how? Corruption isn't a culture in Bangladesh. When the opposition overthrow a corrupt government, they didn't immediately get to lining their own pickets.
Thank you, this was certainly very informative.
I very very much appreciate the admission that some issues are too complex to squeeze into a short video.
I just loved when he said: "Sub-saharan Africa doesn't need pity or gifts, but attention and fair investments..."
Most of all, it needs contraception.
yup, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney is essential reading for a balanced understanding of the continent
@juleous camper You’re mostly right except for the fact that Africa wasn’t “mostly” hunter-gatherer, it had empires and civilisations, hunter-gatherers were not the majority. Europe were quote, unquote hunter-gatherers for quite long despite the fact the narrative is that they were advanced and one of the most advanced.
@juleous camper wdym
*confused confusing confution*(meme)
Can we talk about how beautiful these characters look and how they really do reflect the multitude of different looks of Africa? I know it's small but the attention to detail is worth the praise.
No
@@billzusner4873 umm why
@@billzusner4873 no
Bare minimum.
@@Iannno3 the effort can still be appreciated
I live in South Africa. Unfortunately any gifts or investments into our already crumbling economy would go straight into our presidents and politicians pockets.
I live in South Africa. Been working in a few other southern African countries. And the sentence "it's complicated" sure is accurate. If not understated. That rabbit hole goes deep.
Corruption being a major contributor. It Can't even get fair investment. It all vanishes.
I want to say how much I appreciate how Kurtzgesagt handles the information they use and provide. Giving a full reference list and putting in so much effort even when having to deal with a time limit is something to be immensely proud of in a world of clickbait hot takes. Most channels would either not mention having to simplify, or mention it but then not put in the research. Kurtzgesagt goes the extra mile tenfold over.
@gold ingot It wont stop all people from hating the content/videos, but it goes a long way in helping to bring more reliable, correct and well-thought-out analysis' of difficult topics. Having access to the sources of the video lets you know what they used, whether their facts are right or if the sources are good or not, which is amazing IMO.
Except they didn't do a good job at all. They provided a bunch of statistics based on linear projection (literally the least accurate predictive model possible), presented the historical evidence that proves their own conclusion wrong, and then concluded by ignoring that evidence repeating and repeating that linear projection data again as their conclusion. That's not how science works!
@@KiraSlith Can I at least ask, which of these were blatantly wrong, and how much do you understand statistics?
@@KiraSlithgive examples please tyty
@@johnbalverde1180 If you understand what "Linear Projection" as a statistical model is, you know enough to know that the prediction summary @ 5:44 isn't likely to happen even ignoring the historical data. They debunked the overpopulation concept themselves on their own channel in a video called "Overpopulation - The Human Explosion Explained", in fact they very specifically bring up Bangladesh as an example in that video!
This might sound like a conspiracy theory, but I think the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had more influence on this video than they're admitting.
Make a whole documentary that’s a couple hours long, i would still watch the whole thing
Animating the entire thing would take months
And a lot of money
No kidding
... and wait half a year
Bruh why y’all even got to say this, like literally it is figurative, y’all taking it serious
I never thought i could learned so much in just 7 minutes of my life, this is such a big help as a life-long learner thank you!
I love this channel ^_^
My father: 18 sibling
Me: me, a brother and a sister
*welcome to Malaysia*
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol my grandparent had 9 children, I only have one sibling now
That’s literally destroying the earth.....
18?? Man your grandmother must be one hard ass woman...
My grandparents (German/Polish): 7 children
Those 7 children and their partners: 5 children
Those 5 children (ages 30-35): 0 children - it may change though;)
'This topic is too complex to summarise in a few sentences so we'll make a whole video about it in the future'
Just that. That drive to educate us. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard and I wish we had so much more of it in the world. Never change, Kurzgesagt.
Not a topic, an agenda
@VincentHanna121 the globalist agenda. When they started this it was global warming. The people pushing it went in the night before and turned off all the AC where the meeting was held on the hottest day that year. They wanted to show people sweating so americans watching would think things were way worse than they were. Just like all the other crap they said that would happen that hasn't
The Germans are woke asf
I hope to never live to see kurzgesagt sponsored by raid: shadow legends
@@littlecatholicman thats how hitler rise in the first place....
As an Algerian, my mother has 7 siblings, my father has 8, and I only have one brother due to lower fertility.
I like how Kurzgesagt acknowledges that there might be errors, cites their sources, and talks to multiple scientists about their topics.
Yes, this was going to be a sensitive topic no matter what. I'm from Kenya and in a nutshell, agree with everything said.
I understand the need to generalise and give approximates because honestly not even an hour is enough time to get through all the specifics.
Objectively speaking, there shouldn't be any outrage towards this video of any kind. This video was a starting point to a conversation we (for those it concerns and would like to make it their concern) should be having.
Great job.
Kaleli Kiluva ❤️
I assure, those people who find offense in this video are just white liberals who are virtue signalling.
The people who have found themselves "offended" by this video have rarely seen what grinding poverty looks like. Their textbook understanding leads them to believe that the people are simply not ready for education or contraception which is utterly ridiculous as the sole reason why some families in India have fewer kids per generation than others is education. When the women are more educated they value each child more dearly as they know that their child needs to have good education to move forward in life. When that education does not reach the poorest people, they fare worse every time. Its better to have fewer but highly educated children than lots of under-educated ones but until you give that knowledge to those families and those women, this will simply and unfortunately never change.
My only issue with this video is the fact they seem to think men have nothing to do with family planning and the creation of children. It only spoke about educating and helping women.
@@titusorelius9458 because it is proven that educating women decreases birth rates. And it's not like only women receive education, a lot of times in areas like this only the boys are educated in the first place. when countries spend more money on education it's not just going towards the girls it's going towards education in general with a focus on getting more girls in to school because they are the ones that are being left behind at a disproportional rate to boys. The more educated a woman is the less children she is going to have, this is a fact. Male education does nothing to drop the population rates.
Kurzgesagt; "this video would be an hour long"
Everyone: "so?"
Animators: "nani"
Animation cost.
I would watch it
@@beaucaspar3990 but wuold you do it?
@@heavymental6673 Yeah, that would be great
Europe has population density of 112 habitants/ km2. Africa has only 31habitants/ km2.
Which continent is more populated?
But Africa is way bigger than Europe
@@KevinGhidor_uh Yeah, Africa is bigger than Europe. That's why if anyone uses maths to make calculations about demographic density, he'll see that Africa is not over populated as the europeans and imperialists media try to make africans believe. We africans we still can multiply as we have land, water and all other resources to live our life according to our standards.
@@nguengojoao2911 exactly. To add on that, the whole idea of malthusian overpopulation is pretty much false (at least for now)
But africa has Sahara and other deserts, as well as some dense jungles life there is mostly impossible, so those regions shouldnt count
Yeah, its very wierd title. Africa has an organization problem and a growing food problem, "overpopulation" is such a lazy ignorant term and in this case, all wrong
Excellent video. Without prejudice to our brothers and sisters in the continent that is the cradle of humanity. With just a bit of adjustments here and there, there is so much improvement to hope for.
The most important obstacle in underdeveloped countries is government corruption. There's no goodwill towards citizens from government even when there's literally no cost to change things for better. Some people just like to make a profit out of misery of their own citizens. That's sad true.
@@thegreatgoldenspatula uh
excuse me, but government comes from citizens... it's not like a foreigners get invaded and grab all money. I live in Ukraine (undeveloped country) and can prove that citizens by themselves accelerate corruption by bribes, lies and careless.
@@thegreatgoldenspatula that's a euro-centric view if I've ever heard one.
Only need to do like americans and legalize corruption.
If it's corrupted, half of the money could be spend for the people while half it would be invested. If it's unstable. Zero of the money would be spend on the people. Even some dictator sought to improve the country so that there's more money to be taken. You can't take a non existent money from poor people. Just look at china lol
I live in Ethiopia and I was actually discussing a tough housing project with my partner little before watching this video. Over the months, we architecture students have gotten to the point of fighting when talking about how to make houses for the poorest slum dwellers in the city. THERE'S JUST SO MANY PEOPLE. And they just keep increasing, not just by natural birth but also by rural to urban migration from the 80% rural population. I took part in the T2D rural to urban migration project and found that what exists is not just a housing problem. I participated in an AU youth conference and found that it's not just a social/tribal/ethnic issue at hand either. The fear, stubbornness, and selfishness that aggravates everything on every level of this society are not unique to this part of the world. But it manifested itself on an intense level here.
So, thank you Kurzgesagt for even beginning to tackle a problem that feels like it's taken the form of an unbudging monster. Don't be afraid to state the problems and factors that I know you found in your research when it comes to the Sub-Saharan context.
I'll go back to work on my assignment with an extra burst of energy, I think.
You can see my channel for the videos I make about the reality I take part in for now and subscribe to follow up on that.
@Bro9650 ooof. In many ways, there's a lot happening, boo. In the five years I spent here alone, so much stuff was built. But when you *exist* in the city, you're caught up in a lot of the immediate stuff that make you feel like everything's going wrong all the time
If you have a "partner" at least you don't have to worry about kids, so I guess that makes it a bit easier
@R I'm pretty sure high density housing is about the worst possible option. Correct me if I'm wrong. That just sounds like a planned slum. Higher density means less room for living and good infrastructure, less sanitation etc.
@R
In post war eastern Germany we built such blocks with preproduced concrete parts to house all the people of the destroyed cities. They didn't look very nice but did their job. In fact these flats were pretty popular since they already had district heating which wasn't all that common in that time.
As a fellow civil engineer I trust your skills to come up with some good solutions. Even though the circumstances may be difficult from time to time. 👍
@@Toefoo100 ooo. She's one of my five partners in this specific project.
Bangladesh is so tiny in size and it scares me what the situation would have been for us if birth control was not given such importance.
Love from Bangladesh.
as my family is Bangali, my maternal grandmother throughout the early 60's and late 70's had 7 miscarriages and 7 births. I was amazed how she went through a whole war hiding, still raising some children and pregnant.
mom :- 7 siblings
dad :- 8 siblings
me :- none
*that's india*
India, the place where the people are smart as hell, the politicians, on the other hand...
My dad has 6 siblings and my mom three lol. But at least they had the sense for only 1 kid
@Samridhi Das 26 sibling??!!!
@Samridhi Das 😄😄
Literally I noticed this pattern everywhere.
Me: Talk dirty to me
Kurzgesagt: We'll make a video about it in the future.
AMANBIR SINGH! AMANBIR SINGH! AMANBIR SINGH!
Hahaha classic
weirdo
Weirdo
Tunak tunak tun
Thanks for this video
As an Irish person, it's an honor for "Ireland" to be said on this channel.
is that in iowa
"In the 1960's an average Bangladeshi woman would had 7 children"
Me, a bangladeshi with 5 aunts and 1 uncle : Thats true I guess.
same here :v
they're from two mothers tho so in your case, your two grandmas have an average of 3.5 children
is it tru you people have brown bussy?
@@jankay8569 delicious
@@jankay8569 brown bussy = best bussy
As an African I can tell you there is very little chance we will replicate Asia. Reason being the abundant corruption that plagues our countries. As long as our countries are ruled by liberation parties that believe they are owed for the years the fought for ‘“liberation’ and also charismatic leaders, a small African elite will benefit from any economic investment. We need to rid ourselves of the ruling elite and put forward selfless educated young minds. This will create the knock on effect that will lead to economic development and everything suggested by this video. Unfortunately our leadership is here to stay and the west and China are happy doing business with them. There is more to this and as u said it’s complicated. The only way out I think is mass revolutions
Is there anything being done to combat corruption? I sympathise with you guys, you've been through a lot. But apathy solves nothing. You've pointed out a revolution. Is there something similar happening?
@@shitlordflytrap1078 I mean it's not quite simple. Seeing Africa's history, the fear of civil war is always imminent and doesn't encourage people to rise in a revolution. Rwanda, South Soudan, Somalia... Another point is international intervention. Many elite groups who rule these nations have strong ties with their previous colonizers, ensuring good deals for the colonizers, and weapons and militias for the ruling elite. Case and point: Congo. Colonial powers still benefit today largely from their colonial history under the cover of neo-capatilsm. West Africa still picks its currency after the Frech Franc. I find it yet baffling that the investment projects China is leading in Africa are bigger than what the US or EU did for years. Fair foreign investment is the best way to build an infrastructure, connect cities and towns, and provide jobs and money to develop a socially and politically stable environment. Ethiopia did it after witnessing famines in the 90's. Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and others are doing it now. There's hope for other Sub Saharan nations, but not as long as weapon companies in the North still profiting from government-approved gun sales. The best you can do as a middle-class citizen in North America or Europe is to pressure your politicians to stop unethical gun sales to conflict groups in developing nations. The US under Trump sold guns to Saudi Arabia while it's using them to fuel the war in Yemen, just so the US could get some good oil deals. This is the least you could do. Donations and gifts don't do much. But this is way more significant...
@@kuzzam6626 Hey thanks for the info. I have heard about the shit that China is setting up in Africa, it almost looks like second-wave colonalism. I've also seen a ton of racists use China as a way to show 'hypocrisy' in decolonising Africa during European/American colonialism. And there also seems to be a fuckton of environmental issues in East Africa with the flooding and cyclones and what not.
I'm not even of age to vote yet, but I'll keep your advice in mind. I come from a relatively small and silent European country that doesn't have much say regarding intercontinental relations (I mean for God's sake, even Syrian immigrants skip our country and go to Germany instead), but if I see an opportunity to speak up, I will try.
@@shitlordflytrap1078 the environmental problems majorly stem from climate change, whose effects are palpable here in Europe. Global warming will affect Africa greatly and horribly causing more droughts and uncontrollable floodings. I currently live in Germany but I come from Tunisia (North Africa). The risk of drought in North Africa will be detrimental in the next 10 years as my country is running out from renewable water sources( mostly rain, we don't have major rivers since we don't have really high mountains to collect snow and rain). No matter how small you believe your role is, it still matters. Engage in conversations, raise awareness and be kind to refugees and immigrants because most of the times, conditions are not as favourable or generous from where they come from. No one chooses simply to leave everything behind.
I lived on all 3 of those continents and corruption is not something special to Africa. Bangladesh is known for abundant corruption as well. I don't think the issue is can Africa replicate Asia and Europe, but should it? Colonialists kill Africans for hundreds of years then tell them to stop having children too. Lots of things were missing from this video, as stated. Western development was not sustainable, so copying it isn't smart either. In agricultural economies, children are an asset instead of merely a cost. In spite of being "over-populated" these countries often contribute less to global warming and mass extinction.
I’m glad to see Africa’s come to Kurzgesagt’s attention.
I hope that the video that will be made in the future will talk more on the horrible, rampant corruption that’s pretty commonplace in Africa - if you can’t make any generalizations at all, you can at least be sure of assuming there’s a huge corruption problem here - and how it’s seriously stagnating this part of the world.
Amazing video as always. ❤
Thank you for a clear and detailed analysis.👍
Can't wait for _Langegesagt_ to kick off
what is that?
@@MyGameCalledLife Kurz is the German word for short (so Kurzgesagt means "explained in short" or "in a nutshell").
Lange is the German word for long, so I was making a pun of their name saying how they might make much longer videos.
klarigi4219 😄 I was hoping you weren't joking. thank you for explaining
klarigi4219 that is some 300IQ pun, kudos
@@Super2Donny It really isn't 300 IQ if you're a native German speaker.
"Why are you gay"
"To save Africa"
Try being gay in Africa though...
@@domzbu oof
@@adohmnail6445 this reminds me of something I heard about jews visiting a tribe in africa, and and the chad tribesmen sent the jews away. Just imagine a guy in nothing but a loincloth and maybe a bone put through his nose saying "Fucking Jews".
iam in aftica😓
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Lovely video. The question of whether people want to reduce population is complex. I see international proponents for boosting domestic population growth (1 billion Americans etc.) as a means of ensuring economic growth. I think these are wrongheaded but it can be difficult to discuss family planning in Africa when it can be framed as population control for Africa, popultion growth for others.
the best part of this video is going into the comments and seeing people from different countries talking about how they love kurzgesagts visuals and accurate information about them
As an African, I can relate with the huge demographic shift. Both my parents have 7+ siblings while I only have 2
edit: some of these replies are rude and toxic, so please avoid them
3 kids are still too much.
@@HOXHOXHOX Yeah, while in most developed countries most couples are having at least 1 or two at a time now.
We need donations in Africa
@@hugodaniel8975 I'm not going to be mean and evil and say, no. But, I feel like more African nations should adopt more of Western lifestyles, and giving people more rights. That's a start. It's what Western Europe had to do. And things started to change for people. Believe me, some of the countries are trying their hardest to open up. I've been to Africa twice in my life. Beautiful people and countries. And I even remember one of the leaders from an African country who was once a colony of France, who was having a speech with Macron. And one thing he said was, "We (as in African nations) need to let our young people know that we need them here in their homelands. We need to stop having them flock to Europe and North America, in order to live better." He meant this by saying, Africans have got to start developing in best ways and start taking better care of our people. I agree with him. I believe there has got to be changes like he would mention.
My parents have like 12 siblings.
Me I have 5 siblings.
With one elder brother,I am 24 now.I will probably have 2 or 3 kids
1:32 “This video would be an hour long.”
To be honest, we wouldn’t mind that happening.
Same here
Animators would die
True, but do they really have the economy for an hour long video?
It takes an incredible amount of work to make 5 mins of this
It's more complicated than that. It would decrease accessibility by a wide margin, thereby lowering net viewership. In today's society, people love bit-sized content more over lengthier ones cuz of lack of time. ergo the loner the clip, the less will be willing to watch who would otherwise might have tuned in. If you think about it, what they're trying to achieve is great. They're making important or interesting topics more accessible to a much wider audience than just the ones looking for documentaries and sciencey stuff, thereby increasing exposure and awareness on some very critical topics.
Could you make videos on effective charities tackling the issues you talk about?
I find the task if researching the charities daunting and it's hard to know what will impact them
Millenials: "let's play animal crossing, honey"
Boomers: "welp, I'm bored. Wanna do it raw?"
Being a zoomer Bangladeshi, I can confirm the rate of reproduction has decreased. In fact, its quite taboo to have more than 2 children in the cities : Most will blame you as an illiterate or just someone 'in the past'. I personally have a little brother. My father, born in 1962, has 7 brothers! The change is in fact, quite drastic.
Dude, didnt they have condoms?
@@champ2501 As per the video says, no. They did, however, have religious boundaries that I bet no one gave a shit about. I personally am an atheist and nothing's stopping me from doing that.
LuminousHorror my grandma had 9 kids in Bangladesh, but that may be because she was in the village and it was 1950 something and not the city like Dhaka lol
@@luminous104 are you oppresed for being an atheist? How common atheism is in Bangladesh?
@@adee6467 I'm Bengali and I think it's high likely that he isn't openly atheist. You would face quite a bit of backlash from family for not being religious, however generally speaking you should be fine, if you're not completely open about your athiesm.
They had a really rough time they even forgot to add in the intro.
You definitely get a subscriber.
They made that rough time for themselves. Things weren't great under colonial rule but at least they wern't butchering every leader that came to power just to get their own.
@@imaginative6315 this has been proven wrong
@@imaginative6315 Yeahhhhhh sure bud. your existence is a living counterexample to that logic.
@@imaginative6315 beep beep racism alert
@@imaginative6315 ._. That's like saying black people smoke all the time.
1:30 I think I'd quite enjoy an hour long version.
Branching out into long form content might be good if you can make a team for it.
Podcast and long form content has become quite popular recently... along with really short form content like ...shorts 😅
0:00 intro
0:33 overveiw
1:42 Global prespective
2:54 africa
When your sleep schedule is so bad it matched up with Europeans
Same but reverse
Yea
I nocturnal
when you have night shifts so you cant choose
fellow Australian, i see.
"Africa needs ... Fair investment"
Kurzgesagt's Chinese Social Credit score has dropped 1500 points
Shouldn't it go up, considering how much China is investing in various African countries? Whether or not it's fair will be seen in the coming decades, but it's definitely more effective than the poverty aid the west has been doing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Lolwutfordawin it's not really fair if they send chinese workers to work in their investments in Africa which in turn will make all the money flow back to China
@@Lolwutfordawin It definitely isn't going to be fair. China has been buying out sea ports across europe and the mediterranean to create a shipping route that will lock out competition and dominate entirely. Other countries have been taking huge loans from them that will be hard to pay back.
They also have their hands buried deep in the Australian education system, and people in government end up praising everything they do out of financial pressure, cuz if China pulls out they'd be doomed as China is responsible for a huge chunk of their revenue. They've also taken control of the water system there. I could go on.
@@Lolwutfordawin Except it's not actually helping all that much, since deals are made by corrupted governments, and are going to enslave population in debt traps, while the people who are actually hired to do the works are likely some of the 80 millions leftover Chinese men rather than locals.
In Indonesia:
father: has 13 siblings
mother: has 3 siblings
me: has 2 sisters
3 of us haven't has kid. We are in our 30s I am nearly 40.
My grandfather from mother side is highly educated (Master degree equivalent) and come from wealthy family, but during his time, it is very important to have sons (male heir) all 4 of their children are educated.
My grandfather from my father side is much older generation, skillful tailor but less educated. He believe more children will bring more prosperity to his clan. He has 14 children (1 die as toddler, 2 adopted by other family). My father in his childhood life in poor family but all the children are educated. Male to highschool and female at least 6th grade + informal education. When they become adult, older children work and help to support their younger siblings. Most of them become wealthy because they use to be hardworking and careful with money.
My mother has 2 miscarriages and she give birth to 3 daughters. I think my parents originally wanted 2 children (one boy one girl) but when after 2 daughters are born, you know, their relatives will persuade them to try give birth to another baby hoping it will be a son.
Note: yes there were patriarchal discrimination long time ago (like 30-70 years ago).
watching this just after watching pyro's utopia vid feels very ominous
I'm Bangladeshi
My dad has 8 siblings and my mom has 3
And I'm the only child
It's interesting to see these sorts of population changes between only a few generations in other places. Here in the US it took us very long to change birthrates gradually
>stands up
no *im* Bangladeshy!
It is great that the natality went down so quickly, but who will make money in 30 years when your parents will retire and the government will have to pay them. I am afraid that there won't be enough people in productive age to feed all the old ones. It is just a more extreme level of population ageing we face in Europe right now (or at least at my country).
@@sambradley9091 maybe because of the huge influence of conservative christianity in America and Europe, that did and still opposes state programs to reduce birthrates, under the assumption, that there is a divine mandate to procreate AND sex without it would be sin.
@@shadymedic At least they get a choice in how many kids to have, unlike in China. Even though they raised the amount to 2, it's still not always ideal.
“It’s a region rich in resources”
*Europe in the 1870’s would like to know your location*
And China now
@@lonewanderer6180 China is going to screw us over
USA would like to help you establish democraty in your country
*Operation "Diplomacy" INITIATED*
@@battlecraftx9 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of the biggest obstacles to education in Africa is menstrual hygiene products. If a child has nothing to deal with the period for that week, they don't GO to school that week. For obvious reasons, half your population missing a quarter of their education is a bit of an issue. This is why it's such a sharp dropoff in school enrollment/attendance during adolescence.
A milder but similar problem has started in the UK where schools noticed a pattern of absences among adolescent girls from impoverished backgrounds that was not seen in boys from a similar background. Steps have been taken to supply girls with hygiene products and hopefully attendances will improve. There are also cultural expectations in some ethnic groups which militate against advanced education among women, especially in STEM subjects.
It'd be nice if you could make a video specifically talking about a positive and a negative case study from sub-Saharan Africa.
Well, it's felt very good to see my country, Bangladesh, has done a lot on reducing population growth, educate people, providing better helathcare. I appreciate the praise your channel give to my country.
Love from India
Glad to see that my fellow Bangladeshi brother also watch this channel
Damn I feel very proud of Bangladesh and I'm not even from Bangladesh
Never heard of it. But I still think this channel has the right idea to give praise to your country. BTW no offense.
@@wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww You never heard of Bangladesh?
Kurzgesagt should sell Tshirts with "It's complicated" written on the front
*why do i suddenly stan this concept* ♥️♥️♥️♥️
True
That's a great idea👍🏻
Do the globe and a banner in yellow around it saying, it's complicated
Yasseen Moussalli and CGPGrey “and that’s another story for another tiiiime”
I'm taking AP human geography class and these geography terms are so useful to know, now that I notice I would not understand a thing this video would say.
I love how you guys use real information that we can trust from scientists before you post the video. It shows you really want to spread good information
_“We won't include the whole of Africa, otherwise the video would be an hour long”_
I'd see that more as a gift
the animators wouldnt 😂
@@alanivar2752 the animator would launch their own workers revolution against kurzgesagt bourgeoisie
"This video would be an hour long"
We *NEED* Kurzgesagt Podcast Now
Agreed
Fr
Plus then they wouldn't need to animate which would save time. Damn, now I really want this but I know it'll never happen :(
Googled for one just a few days ago.
UA-cam payed Vox $2M for “better content” they should Pay Kurt so they can hire for animators.
there is one thing that people overlook when it comes to africa. in as much as we are lagging behind compaired to the rest of the world, the advantage is atleast we get to observe and learn from mistakes and challanges of those who are way ahead of us,
we've learned very important lessons like
1. the effects of highly processed foods inc sugar
2. side effects of certain birth control methods
3. the downsides of encouraging women to focus solely on career, but instead to find balance btwn career and family coz the latter is equally important if not more.
4. the effects of being too comfortable as a society/country, you tend to lose site of whats imortant and what's valued like waking up in the morning, seeing the stars, watching the sunset, being around family and friend, loving and helping others and instead you get whiny about small things like how you should be refered to as and all these other self imposed pronouns going around, to the point of confusing what a man and a woman is...
(lets not even get started on the slow degeneration of people into something resembling psychotic aliens as witnessed on social media)
5. the effects of war, most soldiers dying in a war believing they were fighting for a course which turns out to be false, so yes, before taking arms against a brother, is he really the enemy or they made you believe he is
6. the effects of overvalueing material possesions over other things in life
7. the effects of parenthood on a child, single mums, neglectful dads, and all those following up to how the kid turns out
8. we are not so different regardeless of skin color, tone, region, country... an asian can be a good friend of mine just as a black african(kenyan) can e my enemy
list is long and yes we still face some of these challenges but atleast we see them coming.
african we are
Oh please shove off with your anti-lgbt agenda