At a fireside chat Monday in New York City, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, U.K. billionaire Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates of the U.S. debated factors that play a role in African economic growth, including agriculture, education and the hot button issue of the day: family planning.
, a U.K billionaire born in Sudan, spoke about ways Africa can reach its potential in the coming decades during an event at the Africa Center in Harlem in New York City on Monday.
—double that of the population in 2016. Gates said it is estimated that 50% of all newborns worldwide will be born in Africa by the end of the century. The best approach toward family planning, especially in rural areas, is to improve access to healthcare and education, Gates said. “If you mess up health and education, you get more people. But if you get it right, eventually your population goes down,” he said. Once people adopt family planning methods like contraceptives and population growth rates slow, other problems are easier to address, Gates added.
Ibrahim went a step further, explaining that major social problems, like fundamentalism and violence, are byproducts of population growth outpacing job growth. “If you have two kids, you can educate them. But if you have seven to eight kids and no jobs, you have Boko Haram,” said Ibrahim, making a reference to the jihadi terrorist organization in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
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