Putin: Starting in 2030, the center of global demographic growth will inevitably shift, it is already happening, to Africa. By the year 2050, its population will exceed 2.5 billion people, of which about 70% will be young people under the age of 30. According to the data of the African Development Bank, the average economic growth rate of the continent's countries is 4.2%, higher than the world average. And 12 of the 20 fastest growing economies on Earth are African. The continent has unlimited opportunities for intensive further development of sustainable economic growth.