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Africa has the most rapidly expanding population of any region in the world, even though the continent’s birth and death rates are also the world’s highest. There was some decline in overall death rates in the latter half of the 20th century, but infant and child mortality rates remained high, and average life expectancy at birth actually declined somewhat during the 1990s. On average, Africa’s population is increasing at about 3 percent per annum, and that growth rate is associated with an increasingly youthful population: in nearly every African country more than two-fifths of the population is younger than 15 ...(100 of 32999 words)