Africa has 800 million inhabitants, 13% of all humanity. This colourful crowd, enthusiastically waving to the photographer, was photographed in Abengourou, in eastern Côte d’Ivoire. These children and adolescents remind us of the country’s youthfulness; as in most of the African continent, 40 percent of the population is under 15 years of age. The country’s birth rate is 5.1 children per woman, which is representative of the average for the continent (the world average is 2.8). Modernization and the development of cultural and socio-economic programmes are gradually reducing the birth rate, but it will take several decades for the African population to stabilize. The ravages of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa (home to 70 percent of the total 36.1 million people infected in the world) will have a severe impact on the region’s demography: every day in Africa 6,000 people die of AIDS virus and another 11,000 become infected.

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