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Africa's Labor Forces are Soaring While Jobs Struggle to Catch Up
Nigeria's working-age population is set to surpass the U.S. by 2050, UN data show
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An explosion in the African working-age population will be a wasted opportunity if the continent’s labor markets can’t catch up.
Seventeen sub-Saharan African nations will rise the most in rankings of the countries with the fastest-growing working-age populations by 2050, even though they’re coming from a very low base, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects. Nigeria will surpass the U.S. with the world’s third-biggest labor force.