Sunday 3 November 2019

Preparing Africa’s youth for the digital economy and the future of work

A young Senegalese man types on a laptop outside.


|October 24, 2019 


Africa is projected to experience a population growth of 1.3 billion people by 2050. An estimated 15 to 20 million increasingly well-educated young people are expected to join the African workforce every year for the next three decades. Delivering quality jobs to match in order to fully leverage on the continent’s demographic opportunity is set to be one of Africa’s defining challenges over the coming years.