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please talk about ireland more please this is one of the only time you did so please and thanks

can you make a video about demographic change? The problem that all developing countries have and at some point they too whole world with a too low birth rate

I am from Ethiopia and within the few seconds of your mention of Ethiopia, the visuals were very accurate, the black lion statue the churches, the buildings in the background (The African Union Headquarters), the dress the lady was wearing with the traditional pattern and the smiling boy on our currency (birr) was Truly impressive. Thank you guys for doing intensive research on your amazing videos!

You get a subscription my good sir

@lester chua my dad got deployed go Djibouti for 10 months recently, place is crazy.

I am too from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and I feel like about this video

@Robloxegy I am not sure about Ethiopia, but right beside in Eritrea, we take English classes, you can also just learn the language leisurely. Also, Internet cafes Also, in case this came of as me being rude, I write this just to inform you of a different country

Yo here is a joke what the diffrence between an ethiophian AND a tennis ball ,2grama

My mother : 11 siblings My dad 17 siblings Me none Yup that's bangladesh

My grandmother (born 1912): 12 siblings My father (born 1940): 1 sibling Me (born 1971): 1 sibling Germany. Been through the same madness as every place on this world.

I only live with 1

@Mr. Hat me: 3 siblings

One of my closest friends is from India (but also Bengali), and his family is a bit similar. His dad had I think 14 siblings, his mom had 9 siblings, and he has no siblings.

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.

@Ant A no visa??

@SCP Foundation Thanks. Looking it up it's 1265 inhabitants/km², while Africa's #2, Rwanda is 440.8. As for a previous comment, Africans need to be assured that if they "only" have 2-3 children, they will all survive to adulthood. The malaria vaccine of 30% effectiveness is a good step forward.

I praise the methods in Bangladesh- Their not harmful or forceful, and they help reduce population growth!!

@AfricanQueen It's funny you should be talking considering your name suggests you are from Africa where there seems to be a resource distribution issue. Again, would you rather have 7 children live a miserable short life or 2 children with a comfortable life? The math isn't that hard, at least asian countries like Bangladesh have figured it out by now.

Bangladesh is awesome!

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.

@Banana Hat exactly!

@Guilherme Veloso Are white Americans/Australians not actual Americans/Australians then?

@Banana Hat Yeah you have a point, but still bro like, black people, even if were born/moved to Europe, still aren't actual europeans.

No

something important when looking at life expectancies is that poor countries do not necessarily have lower life expectancy in general, but a lot of infants dying early. Once a child is about 5 years old, it can basically certainly reach 70 or more yrs, but the average life expectancy is brought down by the high infant mortality.

This was also the case in Medieval Europe. Sure, they didn’t have modern medicine and health care, but people didn’t just all drop dead at 30.

Simon Eminger You're wrong. there are fewer middle aged and old people in developing countries.

@Amanda it's fine, it just strengthen the overall human gene

Even in some parts of Europe there was a huge demographic shift since the 50s. My father has 12 siblings. I have one sister.

Yeah even in the Uk, my grandparents both had more than 6 siblings and I only have 1 only 2 gens later

Even in America. My grandfather has 12 siblings and I have 1.

wow

My father in Greece have 9 simblings.1 have 1 brother

A different problem will arise

"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.

Bangladesh has brought that down from 7 per woman in the 60s to 2 per woman now.

@Random Class 465 dude look at population of UP, Bihar , Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, etc their population is way too much . That all can't be immigration. TFR of UP , Bihar and Jharkhand is still around 3 which is higher than national average of 2

@Kaushal Batavia we've had the lowest in south asia since independence , alot of our 70s and 80s growth was triggered by immigration. (also from bangladesh but from nepal and sri lanka aswell).

1:6 boy:girl ratio in your grandparent's family? Damn unlucky

In my town here in the Philippines, my mom said that families before like to have many children because they thought that having many children is good luck and will make their future better since many will take care of them when they are old.

@Jacob Johnson we immigrated from Russia.

@Aimless Drifter - Where did she bring you from? Bangladesh?

That's the sort of thinking that needs to change.

And then they got the older kids raising the youngest smh

As someone who's from Bangladesh, I'm really happy to see my homeland getting some attention at last.

It took only 14 years for the fertility rate to fall by 50% (from 3 to 2) in India, whereas in Bangladesh – globally acclaimed for birth control – a similar fall took 17 years.

@Pão de Jogo yeah it honestly sucks so bad but my friends and i are not and my lgbtq+ friends and I can be openly gay in our friend group so atleast some change is happening :D Im bangladeshi btw

@Pão de Jogo why would you hate a country being based?

@Pão de Jogo it's good to be homophobic

_“We won't include the whole of Africa, otherwise the video would be an hour long”_ I'd see that more as a gift

@Alan Ivar the animator would launch their own workers revolution against kurzgesagt bourgeoisie

the animators wouldnt 😂

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.

good ol' mao

@i promote democracy while overpopulation is merely a myth (or rather, an incorrect archaic hypothesis), breeding is still one of the single worst things an individual can do for our future, and for the planet evolution, particularly in social species such as humans, relies on the community, not the individual. natalism is one of the most ineffective and counterproductive ways you personally can help. its a lazy, false-egoistic hand wave, a virtue signal. others will have children. your personal genes have no reason to be passed down, humans are already so ridiculously genetically similar, particularly for a creature with such a high population count (recent bottlenecks mean nothing when you have a frontal lobe), and genetic engineering will only make this even more obsolete. all humans are our ancestors, our siblings, or our descendants, albeit not directly. we are one species, a familial link is not important in establishing the connectedness of any two unique individuals

@Jeff Bridges africa was fine before colonisation. literally ever single problem it has, the reason its not identical to america and europe, is BECAUSE of colonisation

@Jeff Bridges liberia was colonised by african-americans and ethiopia WAS colonised(have no clue whats up with that myth) just around the world wars not the 1800s. theyre all still colonised: colonisers were always corporations, (VCC), not other countries. who owns all the resources? western corporations

I think in South Africa, the birth rate has decreased for the most part. My mom had 12+ siblings, dad had 7. I only have 1.

@Suryanshu Singh That is projected for the continent. The individual countries have varying populations. Each will determine for itself how its society moves forward. It will not be based on what outsiders plan for us. Especially when they themselves have benefitted from their own population dividend. Like India and China have.

@BonsuBigWhale Will pass India in next year and China around 2025

@BonsuBigWhale Yes so they can avoid issues if there is no population explosion no need for anyone to help 🤷

@Suryanshu Singh The Chinese changed their policy due to too many of them dying alone in old age without family resources. But that is their issue. Has nothing to do with Afrikans. No need for us to follow a similar path only to arrive at the same conclusion later. If there is any population question that should be directed to India, China, Indonesia, south-east Asia. What percentage of the planets human population is found in that part of the world. How do those numbers compare to Afrika as a continent? And they rather increase their numbers? Afrikans will determine their own numbers. If it causes them issues that is for them to deal with. It is not as if the world is going to feed them. They can focus on their own destiny. If it is an issue of so-called aid then better that the world keep its money for other populations. We will survive.

@BonsuBigWhale Chinese fear about the population collapse (sudden decrease in population rather than slow decrease) which has different disadvantages. Similarly fast growing population also makes condition worse.

Its really amazing that you guys often use Bangladesh as a example in many videos. Really I see a bright future for my country 😊. Anyways I am also a single child of my parents.

@Sandal_Thong Did someone bit you on your lips mate?

It's a wonder that 700,000 Rohingya refugees didn't cause the economy to collapse. I see a tsunami in Bangladesh's future.

8th most populous country

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.

A very accurate depiction. And thank you for not treating Africa as one country, a very common and unfairly illiterate perception by many foreigners

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

Its not just in Africa. Dont worry. Here in Bulgaria a "second world" country its the same.

Out of curiosity, does corruption work the same way everywhere? beacause down here in argentina (south america) corrupt politicians (witch is practicly everyone) keep power by filling all the empty spots in the goverment whith family members or political fanatics, it's getting better tho and i hope things get better for everybody else who live in countryes as fucked up if not more than mine

They really have done their research. I only have 1 brother but my mom had 14 siblings while my dad had 9. Being from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 I can tell you that while growing up in the 90s we used to always study overpopulation as number one problem our country is facing. Slowly over time the heated topic got lost and we forgot about it but when we think back it's due to the steps taken by the then somewhat capable govt.

@Bob Jones Countries don't really need big populations, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Vietnam have lower populations than Bangladesh but they are thriving.

@Bob Jones not actually. Population boom only brought problem and misery in Bangladesh

It was that population boom that increase Bangladesh’s wealth from the poorest country on earth.

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😭

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.

So true

yeah, exactly. nobody cares enough to defend them because it wouldn’t benefit them.

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.

Even just as an American Catholic, I can heavily relate to this demographic change that has occurred over the past 50 years. All of my Grandparents had at least 5 other siblings, and one having 8 at the most. Their's was the last generation to have any noticeable child mortality rate, with half of my grandparents having lost at least 1 sibling in childhood. My Father had 7 siblings, and my mother 4. Then with my generation and most other kids I know it is only 1 or 2 others in the family, me having 1. I will probably only have 2 or 3 kids if I ever decided to settle down.

7:15 "Sub-Saharan Africa does not need pity or gifts, but attention and fair investment." This is my favorite statement.

Education & contraception as well.

@Edmonton1704 yea right, but just to say rwanda is an autocracy or anything like that is completing wrong, you could not go agaist the government true, but you can appoint social and economic problems and discuss with them how to resolve it . Never less there is a parliament and power sharing with 11 political parties, but if you want I could explain you in detail

@Yann Mouy It’s Africa, ofc it’s not perfect. But at least it has opportunity and it’s not an autocracy. That’s more then most get

@Edmonton1704 and they have less life expectancy,similar unemployment rate of rwanda.........then rwanda is more of a dictatorship, is a complex system of its own

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

That's really good news and my hat off to anyone assisting in their development and bringing their quality of life to a decent acceptable level.. Go people you can do it..

We also need to recognise that sending material Aid, like huge shipments of second hand clothes to Africa can destroy local economies. Free clothes makes their textile economy crash and destroy jobs, which lead to more poverty. As it was very briefly said in the video, only Infrastructure, Education and Healthcare aid is actually useful and non-destructive. (Exception to this rule is after a natural disaster, people need aid, for obvious reasons).

Again, a great video! But will better life circumstances not also increase the populations since people with better life conditions - which should be a right for everyone - become older as well?

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.

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와 한국인 안녕하세요 Am half korean too But mainly spent my life in india And it is a story here too My grandpa had 7 siblings 💀 My father had 2 I am a single child The Indian cities are really on power or even better than the rest of Asia but it mainly is the rural areas which are holding the country back As a delhite i hope we are able to redevelop our cities, male them slum free and clean Ensure that the poor get richer and the rich don't get too rich and dominate Ensure that more people join the middle class Ensure that the rural towns and villages also develop Invest in our infrastructure, education, societal mindset, healthcare and a peace treaty with China and Pakistan If we do all the above (and buy a bit of rangpur from Bangladesh to better connect the northeast by widening the Siliguri corridor) we may as well be a developed nation🤩

@jelly orwhat natural resources can be a trap for developing countries. They can generate quick wealth, which breeds corruption and mismanagement. Whoever controls the resources controls power. Just look at North Korea. It was expected to become more developed than the South, because the North had all the coals and metals (including trillions of $ worth of rare earth metals) while the South was mostly farms. Yet the opposite happened. The South’s prosperous economy today is now mostly specialized manufacturing and services, while the North is too corrupt to even make use of its resources.

Same shift in Europe. I'm a 23 year old woman, and just graduated university. I only have one brother, who is also going to uni. My mother adn father both had 3 and 4 siblings, but all at least finished education even after high school. My grandparents however, had no option to get higher education. The women went to something called "household school" where they were taught to sew, cook, and clean. No matter how intelligent they were. They all came from families of 10+ children (thanks catholic church), of which at least two or three didn't make it into adulthood. Because we lived far away from the cities, even my grandfathers did not get a high level of education after high-school level education stopped at 16. They did some form of agricultural school for one or two years, and then started working. It's wild to hear stories of how my grandma did not have a toothbrush until she bought one herself when she was 18, and had to share a bed with two siblings. And that only 70 years ago in the Netherlands.

@jelly orwhat You cannot compare Korea problems to Africa. European colonial powers drew up borders with no consideration of the hundreds of tribes living within those lands whom did not get along with each other hence the civil war between South Sudan and North Sudan that split the country apart or the 1994 Rwanda gencide between Tutsi and the Hutu. You lot seem to think Africa is somekind of monolithic place when in reality its not. Africa has over 3,000 languages and cultures all distinct from each other. Pan-Africanism is a joke and a fantasy some delusional people have. Also, most of the infrastructure you are talking about were railway roads linking to the mineral rich mines to the ports to export back to Europe to feed their industries and the few roads along said port towns. There was no real development in the colonies connecting towns, villages etc to important economic hubs. Only those that were considered white settler colonies had any kind of development put into them like South Africa. Most of the infrastructure you see now like in Nigeria was built by Africans not colonial powers.

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.

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 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.

Thank you so much for this! Mine is a fairly amateur opinion since I haven’t done anywhere near as much research, but for anyone interested in issues/topics like this, give Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness a good look.

I just loved when he said: "Sub-saharan Africa doesn't need pity or gifts, but attention and fair investments..."

@Empyrean Can you please read someone else's posts properly before making assumptions? I have never denied the advancements made by Arabs and Asians, nor did I ever say Europe "got the way it did on its own." I acknowledge the past efforts of them, but my argument was in the present. I simply could not care less about the ancient past, my point was that Eurocentrism, or at least my version, apply practically in the last 100-200 years, to this very day, mainly due to the West's role in the tech industry. Besides, shitting on someone's pride by making assumptions is pathetic. European pride has been inflated due to their own advancements, but that discredits their actual contributions, and besides, I can take the most extreme form of pride from a culture, pretend it's the actual majority view, and shit on it. "Oh, Muslim bad because beat woman!"

@Philopator- Yes. It was more difficult for Africa. Not because of itself mainly. But foreign toxicities stalling development. Asia was treated with better trading. Despite being more forcible. Unlike Native American, and African people that just got ransacked. European colonialism was the greatest, and most relevant expansionist in human history. After the transatlantic slave trade is discontinued. Lead by Western Europe. Including bribed pawns(African traders) making it easier. Shortly later. Africa became imperialized from European powers between 1881-1914.

@Ugli PurrltatoTM What the F. Yes we are talking about 500 years, because the 16th century was the time of extended contact between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Was Africa leading the world 500 years ago? Um, no. So how come they would suddenly rise to power, as you said? We aren't talking about thousands of years because that's not the time Europe supposedly "exploited" Africa. Bruh, you can't just cange topic like that, lmao. Europe always existed. In fact, Europe was the very first continent in which every country had a form of writing in every corner. Africa didn't have that, they hardly had any alphabets 200 years ago even. The oldest European civilization is 4500 years old, that's only 500 years after Egypt and Sumer. And as I said, civilization spread the fastest across Europe. I don't even get your point here, nothing of what you said makes any sense. Asia and Africa would NOT lead the world. Don't forget it was Asians that constantly invaded Europe since 375 AD. Hunns, Mongols, Tatars, etc. all invade, and still I don't act as the victim because of that.

Ik the Kurzgesagt team works equally hard. But the soothing voice of the narrator and the animations are what makes this channel for me

I have always dreamt of making Africa a multi cultural and a wealthy place but I thought it was impossible But you made me believe it is possible

Looking at the comments, the first challenge would be to convince the Africans that this quest actually isn't racist or a colonial plot of genocide but a means to help them. This is a "white man racist solution" seriously, how ignorant are you??? Second challenge is the very VERY real issue of corruption in all departments of government.

they blame everything on da white man

Honestly it says a lot that whenever I hear other people talk about Bangladesh, it’s about it’s rapid improvement from being pretty much one of the poorest countries in the world. I have literally seen a visual improvement of Bangladesh from when I was a kindergartener to now as a high schooler. Now, if only the streets didn’t smell like shit (from actual cow shit).

I am from Vietnam whose population has witnessed huge declinations in population growth due to better contraception and education as mentioned in the video. My grandmother had up to 8 siblings (including the youngly dead ones), each of my parents have 4 siblings who all managed to live until now. And me: just 1 younger brother, I feel really OK with this. My society is far more comfortable when talking about sex, condom and family planning, cultivating early awareness of population growth among residents (GREATTT ONE!!). Really feeel proud of my nation, Vietnammmm

@Sandal_Thong you're not thinking deep enough. Even military spending will also suffer with less taxes to play with. All budget on all sectors will scale down as working population shrinks

@Kevin Eusebio • ᜃᜒᜊᜒᜈ᜔ ᜌᜓᜐᜒᜊ᜔ᜌᜓ Spare us. Budget for military: blank check; budget for social services: "We're broke."

@Sandal_Thong yeah that's the problem. With less population paying taxes to support social security, the greater the financial strain it would be for the government to support its senior citizens. It's not like they have unlimited borrowing capabilities. Japan is already at the top of the debt to gdp ratio charts and in 30, 40 years it's gonna be worse for them as they continue to lose adult age workers. China has way worse fertility rate than Japan but at least for Japan it happened naturally and they industrialized slowly along the way. China is still a medium income country and they're running out of time to figure it out. They just had the lowest population growth in decades and all this is coming before they even got to G7 level of household income. Money is not gonna be there to support their aging population and it's a country 11x larger than Japan

@Sandal_Thong Japan's rural cities are dying as younger people move into cities and young people are working harder than ever. The only thing that's off-setting their economic loss due to birth decline. China still hasn't seen the worst part of their declining birth rates. In the future, a single adult has to support his parents and 4 great grand parents. That isn't sustainable if that is gonna be the same for the entire working class population. There are already abandoned parents living now on rural areas and the government isn't taking as good care of them like Japan does.

Well, I am from Bangladesh. And one thing I would like to share that Bangladesh is already a developing country by 2019. And yes thanks for adding Bangladesh in your list.

Has recently watched Poverty Inc. in a Religion and Sustainable Development class, glad how far in depth these videos go to see all the perspectives

watching Kurzgesagt videos have made me much more optimistic about humanity, or at least taught me quite a bit about how humans have more agency in the world than I used to think

"without generalizing, this video would be an hour long" *hour long kurzgesagt video when*

Also the video: 7:42 minuites

Animators: *heart attack*

I'm waiting myself

Animators on suicide watch

please , hour long!

It's very True education really does have an enormous effect on the population and have an impact both on the age of marriage number of offspring, while my grand parents we're married at a relatively young age with 8 children 2 of them died at birth , my parents were married a bit older with only 2 children, and here I am now expecting not to get married until a bit later then my parents.

the animations are very resource/time consuming but maybe a separate channel for hour long podcasts? would love that!

I honestly thought this video was going to be derogatory, was going to place the blame on Africans and the video was going to present Sub-Saharan Africans as homogenous but it was very informative and the information was very accurate. Great job.

Fertility rate of India is dropped below 2 children per woman Some states has near 1

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.

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@The Insomniac Scientist he no spell

@Shaheen Shad What isn't what?

I like how you subtly included the paper clip character in the video. Genius! (For people who are too young to remember, it was the help character in early MS Office versions)

I am from Bangladesh. Feels nice to finally hear something good about our country. 😅

@Prannav Gopinath it's nothing compare to Indians 😎

@HYC ok

@MR.g He is fooling you. He is definitely from South Korea. I am Korean I know it. We Koreans just like to pretend to be Chinese and Japanese when we do something bad. And you believe him 🤣

@임도현 종주국의 노예는 종주국인 척 해서는 안 되며, 개는 주인인 척 해서는 안 된다.

5:25 Unpopular opinion: Some culture is just *wrong* and we should not look the other way just because it isn't politically correct to criticize them. I'm all for people being true to their cultural roots, but when you use culture to excuse oppression (usually of women, minorities, and lower "classes"), you're a bad person and you can't convince me otherwise.

I'm looking forward to growing old and marvelling at the wondrous potentials that were first freed then used in all of Africa. My niece being from the Côte d'Ivoir, I know that there are cultural differences in a lot of things but nothing is ever so opposite that we as humans couldn't find common ground to stand on. One question, even though this might be a couple of years too late @Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: Weren't a good number of South-East Asian countries colonized by European powers too? What made it easier for them to stabilize and transition into more peaceful and economically successful countries (especially considering that there are definitely war hawks in the area, big global players)?

”This video would be about 1 hour long.” I would not mind that but the animators would probably commit not living anymore.

@Neal Kelly exactly

maybe Kurzgesagt should do a podcast

Commit ded

i'd rather short videos and having them publish more then twice a year(~300 hours to make a 8-10 minute video, so about 4 1/2 months to make a one hour video if it scales directly)

I would give 1,000,000 likes to this comment if I could.

I don't comment on many videos, but this one was powerful, and really resignated with me. Thanks for making it!

Africa: Everyone is afraid of overpopulation The Indian subcontinent with more population than all of Africa, with a growing population still:

Lol i live in india and in just 250 metres more than 150 people live

My grandma was born in the late 1920s/early 1930s, at the time life was hard for an average Sarawakian (which is now a part of Malaysia). She didn't have proper education, married my grandfather and had four children. My dad is the 3rd offsprings, he received education only up to high school. He was poor so he couldn't continue his study. I was born in the year 2000, I have 4 sibling and I'm the youngest of them. I'm now on my third year of higher education for degree holder. Time has changed, but I do think it will take another 30 - 50 years for Malaysia to be a major power in the world, now we are a growing economy country, quite modest on the ranking but we would need more time to punch it up to utilise our asset.

Talking about Asian countries having solved the problem of population growth is either misleading or overly-optimistic. Malaysia still has over 1%/year population growth. I can't see how increasing from 10 million in 1970 to over 30 million today is a good thing. Eliminating malaria and development, yes.

I’ve always wanted to see y’all make a video about time travel, atleast the viability of its creation or theories of the possibility of inventing it? That would be really interesting!!

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

Hmmm, I think part of the problem is that the scientists they consulted were all birds 1:34

@Zarozapa CnJ no, a good video is objective. Doesn't matter if your opinion aligned with the video, if the video is subjective is bad (because it is presented as objective).

@Jeff what a modest proposal.

@waterbottle No, eat the rich!!!!

The Finnish Sniping Kirb at least we get to clean the gene pool and have less people to feed. Nothing of value would be lost.

There's a massive difference between South Africa/Namibia and the rest of "sub Saharan Africa". Keep in mind that only a few decades ago we were considered first world. Once we retain control of our borders & weed out the rampant corruption, we'll be back on top in no time. Our future is bright in my estimation

A correction: Bangladesh wasn't a nation in 1960s, it was a part of Pakistan. It got separated in 1971.

Watching Ethiopia grow is the type of content I like to see 🥲

Amazing channel! Watched near a 30 videos already. Just became a patreon. Thank you ❤️

'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.

EXACTLY!

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littlecatholicman Always have been

@Bob wehadababyitsaboi what hurts me is that you still argue that global warming isn’t an issue IN 2020! I thought we were passed this idiotic mindset.

Thank you, this was certainly very informative.

I’d like to go on record that I’d be completely fin with this video being an hour long!

Summary- educating the women is the key! Allow sub-Saharan Afrika to develop independently without theft of resources. Their resources make the western countries rich leaving them in poverty.

Being a Bangladeshi I never really realised how important these 3 things mentioned here are. Without implementing those, the scenario here must have been worse. Also, I must appreciate the hardwork of the animation team for finding out details about Bangladeshi culture. Most people mistook Indian culture to represent Bangladesh. But, here you guys have done a tremendous job. I'm totally amazed at the flowers and paper fan animation at 3:25. You can hardly find them in any other culture.

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.

@Chelsea Comps lol

@Chelsea Comps sus

@FalconGamer58 Black Americans weren’t even considered fully fledged citizens legally until the 1960s 😂😂. Your lack of knowledge is showing on full display

@Chelsea Comps more equality under the law, yes

Beginning in the 1960s, Bangladesh started a family planning program. Bangladesh: independent in 1971. Me: Visible confusion.

am in Zambia southern Africa and this video is 90 to 96% correct, in my country there is no mineral that is absent. the reason for our slow development and failure are due to corruption illiteracy and most of all tradition

Education is best way to uplift any society, educate yourself and give education to as many people as you can in the your society.

My great grandmother had 16 siblings. My grandmother had also 16 siblings but 5 of them died young due to poor healthcare. And my grandma only had a child which is my dad, probably because she was busy working for the family and, had bad relationships. And my dad procreated only 3 children.

I'm disturbed that you're centering your solution to the growing population across sub Saharan Africa on inducing fertility decline via family planning, instead of positively centering your narrative on innovative, people oriented strategies to cater to the growing population which in my opinion isn't a bad thing no matter where they're born

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.

@TheGreatOne If you cant afford education for your children, they will be worse off than you. And after all, that should be every parents major concern.

@SonOfThaSoil _ lol what? Its not genocide to have a reasonable number of kids. Especially when you can't afford to have as many kids as you want. There's too much poverty to keep on having way many kids

@Asain lots of women welders bartenders, fabricators, sheetmetal workers, janitors, machinists, firefighters, prison staff, warden, prison guards etc.

Sweden has a very good example of this 100 years ago a normal family in the countryside working farms could be around 8 kids, the parents, the parents brothers/sisters that didn't move to another farm, and their own parents. My dad, born in the late 50s was one of 9 kids. I am one of three. Early 1900 the average fertility rate was a bit over 4 Now it is at 1.6

I can relate to the demographic shift, my grandfather has 11 siblings ! my mom has 6. I only have one.

I wonder if the best western countries can do to help is simply supplying schools with means to have free education and free meals.

I just lately found myself within a YouTube commentary section where people wanted to make a point, that the demographic situation would be THE main reason for refugees… I always wonder how to even talk to those people

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

@3Dsxhol My grandmother in USA had 11 children (standard for the time-nothing to do with race either). My mother had 7 children. I had 1 child. I think my daughter will have 1 child by choice. City life and exposure to other ways of life and education make these decisions for less children more likely. Religion will have some effect especially if they are anti- contraception. But no matter what since the 1960's the population everywhere has been cut in half per woman even in areas that you would think would stay the same. So as Africa becomes more citified and it is , the birth rates per woman will decline. despite religion and cultural mores because most women are getting access to i phones and information to decide for themselves.

@Think Tank not at all

@3Dsxhol don't do 3. It will increase the population. You can adopt the 3rd

You need to have only one give him education.

@Sean Brummfield Ok mister Ohio

Don't forget the immense corruption and income disparity that infects most of Africa, which divert investment and aid away from people who need it to offshore banks and luxury yachts.

Really good video, glad to see you do something on such the... interesting continent which I live

As a Bangladeshi I can confirm that everything Kurzgesagt said about Bangladesh, Is true

Same me! Our country needs less population

I live in India and I think my country is very overpopulated , there are just too many people

especially mumbai

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.

@i hate anime Do you just hate anything with power? By that logic, since I only have 5 subscribers, I am honest.

Watch "Tom Scott" too if you like watching stuff like this.

@Kira Slith did you at least check the sources they provided for those predictions? Because they're not linear. Just because you see them linear in the video's graphics doesn't mean anything. Those animations are not to be taken at face value, because their point is showing a concept (growth) not an actual slope you can calculate and say "WOW that looks too linear y'all!".

@John Buffalo I am 97 That will help some mothers and fathers in Africa now in the short term but doesn't prevent the children from existing in the first place in the long run.

Amazing graphics. Its Beyond me how people do this. I can't even draw a horse without it looking like a llama.

Το ότι δεν γίνεται αναφορά στο βίντεο, προφανώς σκόπιμα, της εκμετάλλευσής των πόρων της Αφρικής από τον κόσμο της Δύσης, δηλαδή του ανεπτυγμένου κόσμου δεν με εκπλήσσει. Όταν σταματήσει η εκμετάλλευση θα γίνουν όλα αυτά που αναφέρετε στο βίντεο. Μέχρι τότε καλή ανάλυση.

I find one thing incorrect. There was no Bangladesh in 1960. In 1972 Bangladesh was liberated.

I very very much appreciate the admission that some issues are too complex to squeeze into a short video.

I think you would fined that a couple countries from sub- Saharan countries aren’t that different from the rest of the world, take it from me, I live there

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

You hit nail on the head 👏

@leo de salis you oughta look more into what happened to countries after it had its revolution and compare it to how it was before. Also foreign intervention has been causing the majority of the problems(political assasinations, genocides, colonialism)

@heyaytlg no no I didnt that's why I said foreign intervention would most likely be needed, no point the people rising up in civil war to replace one dictator with another which tends to happen whenever there's some form of revolution, look at Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Angola, Zimbabwe, south Africa, Vietnam, Venezuela. need I go on there's probably literally hundreds. One dictator leaves another replaces him without proper education and foreign (most likely military) intervention the cycle just repeats itself.

@leo de salis dude said just vote out fascists LMAO

Thank you for not oversimplifying the colonization part — looking forward to that video!

somehow while you try to not avoid talking about "difficult topics" you never once mention religion.

My grandparents from mom side have 7. Out of that 7, they have 15 grandkids. Out of 15 we have 7 great grandkids. My parents have 4, and only one grand kid from my sister 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 the other 6 from my cousins 🤦

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.

I genuinely thank our first PM Jawarlal Nehru who brought together hundreds of Individual states to a single country India and maintained the Union. If he was anything like African leaders, India would be the worst place.

The union of India in a single state gives enormous benefits to coordinate development

Hmm. I thought Mahatma Gandhi opposed the breakoff from India of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Certainly it's caused a lot of war, migration and suffering and may lead to more with the never-ending conflict over Kashmir. If they were one country would they even need nuclear weapons? What a waste of resources.

@Potidaon Indians can kick any leader out of power. The best thing about India.

Notice how Ethiopia, one of the only nations in Africa that wasn’t colonized, is doing really well. I’m glad that this video didn’t gloss over the effect of colonization, because it is 100% responsible for keeping these nations in poverty traps.

100% ? lol no

I think that soon or late the cheap labor industries in today Asia will be transferred to Africa, with Asia becoming more specialized. Same happened with Japan, S Korea, and now China (next Vietnam, and so on).

My Dad :13 siblings My Mom :11 siblings Me :0 siblings (I'm alone 😛) Well, welcome to present day Bangladesh . 🙂

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. _(p.s. You can subscribe to my channel to follow up on videos in which I talk about this context.)_ 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.

@Nah mate Can you provide a citation? I would like to know how you know that African countries have been given 5 trillion in aid.

I live in South Africa and I can tell you that rural housing isn't an architecture problem, it should be an engineering problem, but unfortunately it's an Africa problem. Architects dwell in the subjective, engineers actually solve problems and Africa isn't interested in either of those. It IS unique to this part of the world. Africa is doomed if left to it's own devices, unless we can start having an open and honest conversation about genetics.

Kudos for being an architecture student where it is really needed! Yes, I've heard that the trend (worldwide, not just Africa) is for cities to house more and more of a country's population. -Rolf

@Sudan Nutella Sudan's goal should be a getting a freezer full of food.

@Manuel Camelo province of Parma. Man, i never heard of the place till now.

I am from Bangladesh. My grandfather had 9 children(1960-70's) and then the next generation my father has 2 children (2000).

The Earth's population could stabilize at 11 billion according to the video. Yet, the video expressed concern that Sub-Saharan Africa might be over populated with 4 billion or 36% of Earth's total. Sub-Saharan Africa has about 25% of the habitable land on Earth. That would be 690 people for every square mile. How does that compare to say, China or India, today? 90% of China's population lives on 40% of the land within its borders or about 820 people per square mile. India is over 1000 per square mile. I think the concern about Africa's future over population is misguided and influenced by racial bias.

@Surcal I appreciate that you read my comment. Perhaps cultural bias would be another way of saying it. My main point is that western culture tends to view 'Africa' as a backward, backwater place, needing rescue and packages dialogue with that perspective.

@Surcal nope, rarely post about such things.

Or you just try to bring racist in every topic

"lets aid africa" every empire ever.

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

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.

@Lumi hi i am a Bangladeshi atheist too.

@Ananta Dev Datta I haven't bypassed anything and we are about Bangladesh only

Ananta Dev Datta I’m a Muslim and I understand this problem. This is culture and it is not islam. In the Quran it says to bad transgress upon those non believing so these lot beating people cus of their beliefs are not following the Quran really

@Ananta Dev Datta Look how little their population is and your friends fb group check how many people from their are from bangladesh first.