Half a billion Tanzanians?

If the birth rates don’t drop in future decades, then Uganda and Tanzania alone will have a billion people in 2100. That’s a very bad idea, writes Gwynne Dyer.
Tanzania President John Pemba Magufuli, right, pictured on May 11, 2017, with then South African president Jacob Zuma, left. President Magufuli thinks women should throw away their contraceptives because the country needs more people, writes Gwynne Dyer.

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