And then there's the taxation and expenses that will be used to rob the people in this m3ga cities. I'd rather see more forest and farmland, reduction of taxation, more health care, apprenticeship, all round beneficial job creations, prices of goods reduced etc 🙄
Growing up in Lagos in the 90s, Lagos was 20 million in population. It’s been over 20 years and the population is still 20 million. I find that prediction/forecast exaggerated
the answer is no. India has bigger cities than Africa and it still is not the "future." Whatever that term means. Population size is meaningless if the Human Development Index is poor.
India is a peninsula with trailing history and ethnic, cultural, and religious divisions in one country. It's not a continent. There will be a myriad of African Countries that will succeed and some that won't.
The documentary is more like for Lagos than it is for the future of worlds mega cities in 2100. And one funny thing is that, they didn't even include Kano, which is officially the most populated state in Nigeria according the national population census.
Please start showing Middle class Africa. Focusing on poverty reinforces Africa's spiral towards poverty. Nobody wants to invest in a hopeless case. Please show middle class Lagos.
@@marko1263 What's with you people and this fascination of believing all Africans want to come to Europe. Today, many Nigerians are actually leaving Europe and heading back to Nigeria.
Nigeria is in the hands of Nigerians, if they can't solve their foreseen problems now they can't blame the past for it. If Nigeria fails its Nigerians fault colonialism ended 50+ years ago😂
DW you have touched a chord in my heart, urban geography and particularly transport geography was one of my favourite topics in undergrad, so I was hooked on this piece from the beginning. Can't wait to see what you have for Nairobi, the capital of my country!
please make a video about Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh. We do have the same problems as Lagos: overcrowded, pollution, people have to fight to get a spot in public schools for their children, having to bribe to get treatment in public hospital or having to pay huge amounts for treatment in private ones, unemployment which force people to migrate in a hope of better future. Traffic jams witch costs you more than 1 hour just for 10kms or 8 hours for less than 200km during holiday. But the funny fact is given the problems we have, we are asked to have more children, because they say we are going to grow old.
Mega cities are not necessarily a desirable thing. It's a compromise. Horribly crowded, challenging sewage system, noise and air pollution, stressful lifestyle.
Africa population is around 1-1.1b, china and India(individually) is above 1.2b. The whole Asia continent is around 4b if I'm not mistaken but you feel the whole Africa needs population policy?
No my guy, those over populated cities will shed some of their people to South Africa illegally. a headache that will bother our grandchildren. contraceptives needed
@@mashobane6177 South Africa birthrate is amongst the lowest in all of Africa but I don’t think SA will have decreasing population crisis anytime for next century,as the country and all of Southern Africa region do still have a large enough young population to procreate and continue population growth in a more manageable manner. I worry that regions like west and east Africa will become overpopulated and not necessarily improve lives of ppl there and possibly cause conflicts amongst ppl, so their ppl will continue trying to move southern and northern parts of Africa
@@dellanfuka2300 Well you made a point, however in practice majority of govts around the world failed its citizens, no matter whether they are democratic or dictatorial. Oversized population can be a serious problem when resources are limited or disproportionately shared. For instance, fast-growing large population in countries like Egypt and Philippines burden their govts and exhaust public resources while their govt revenues cannot keep up with. And when Russia-Ukraine war broke out two years ago, concerns over food harvests reduction were growing and hunger crisis was alarming in Egypt. Realities are hurtful.
Exactly. None of these countries have a secondary sector or quarternary sector. Unemployment and crime will be super high. These cities cannot hold these numbers. Kampala 40 million, that is the entire country in 2024. Laughable.
I'm a Camerounian, i dont know Nigerian realities but i dont think a big country like Nigeria with all it billionaires and resources can say they lack money to provide infrastructures and amenities. Countries like South Africa with a gdp of $405 billion have well planned and urbanized cities, Eventhough Nigeria is overpopulated it has a gdp of $472 billion but it seems like Nigerian government does not care of urban planning and social welfare. So i really ask myself in what Nigeria is the giant of Africa if she cannot atleast privide basic amenities.
Well as it is in August 2024, South Africa with a population of 62mil people now has larger GDP than Nigeria and Egypt, both with much larger populations. Nigeria is estimated closer to 230mil people and Egypt is 115mil people
there will never be a second China. People never realize confucianism that emphasizes society over individualism is the one driving progress in China. that's why india, Indonesia, Philippines with their demographic dividend will never become Japan, South Korea, Taiwan which belong to house of confuciansim. Vietnam is the last remaining underdeveloped confucianism country, forget about African countries...
African needs to get rid of there corrupt Neo-Colonial regimes and be more like Singapore. Added the West needs to help Africa like how the Chinese are, build infrastructure.
Great documentary! However, if this was made of Berlin or London, the photodiary shared at the end of the documentary won’t be about the homeless in Charlottenburg, Mitte, Pankow (Berlin), Soho, Trafalgar Square and Clapham (London). Regardless, thanks for the interesting facts brought together for the viewers, the planners, and other stakeholders.
Except they change the shelter infrastructure... Lagos cant take more people..... Skyscrappers will need to be built for residence.... Cox whats happening in lagos now... Is people going in and out...
don't talk to me about 80 years when almost none of us will be here, talk to me about the next 20 to 30 years, that's what actually matters, many of us here may not be there at 2100 so it doesn't really matter to us.
I’m sure by 2099 Lagos will be in the same urban area as Benin and Enugu and all cities in between like aba and akure will be in the same urban area as Lagos
😬 building cinemas, offices, and shopping malls on the reclaimed land is bad idea. Those are three things hit the worst by the internet. Nigeria has the opportunity to see where more developed nations have failed and not take that route.
Lagos a great Yoruba shining city, there is also Ogun state the industrial capital of west Africa, and Ibadan - the largest city in west Africa and the largest IGR in the country.
In my view, the underlying problem in similar situations worldwide is a lack of money. That means a lack of wealth to make the investments in infrastructure, business, and people necessary to raise the standard of living. Given the scarcity of resources, the "authorities" need to find ways to enable the population to better add value and compete economically in the world marketplace. That's a tall order and it appears that some progress is being made. Thanks for this informative video.
If residents of Victoria Island do not have clean portable water, who knows what the people of Makoko are drinking. Lagos with 80 million residents by year 2100, is like trying to accommodate fifty passengers in a twelve seater danfo bus. Seems impossible. But don't underestimate Nigeria, and in Lagos anything is possible.
We should not only claim to have megacities due to population but we should be able to provide infrastructures and amenities to satisfy the needs of the increasing population
The earth's population will go up to 10 billion people by 2100 with Africa seeing the largest growth. Africa will see it's population grow to 2 billion people by 2050. South Africa will reach 80 million by 2050.
80m isn't possible, Lagos is small and choked, and by the time South Western Nigeria secede, we will deport people without jobs and living in shanties or petty traders, our people who live in shanties would be supported, South Western Nigeria has the least birth rate, only 5m increase in about 30yrs
Wait! Did I hear a prof in Unilag saying there is no mortgage system in Nigeria? It would have been different if he had challenged it effectiveness. This is rather appalling, as he wouldn't have said such if it were a local journalist that knows the existence of Mortgage Financing in Nigeria. What a shame
who's that at the door? climate change... "I'd like to talk to you about poverty, Equatorial Africa and climate change. this population will crash, and literally burn"
Africa population as to naturally crash, like Europe’s or Asia’s. House prices, women’s rights, cost of essentials as to lower the population at some point. 88 Million?
population isn't a problem it is an asset, we have the youngest population an incredible asset if we hit those numbers, with good governance and investment in human capital development Africa would yield success, we can't age soon we are still in our developing phase. Our population is our biggest asset not even our natural resources, especially at a period were most western countries are at the danger of facing a population decline.
They need to solve corruption, low education rates and religious dogma if they want to get anywhere further developing their nation!! But I trust the new generations all over the world, they're more conscious 🌍
africa needs more than optimism to develope, at this moment all of subsaharan african future is very bleak, a lot of conflicts to be polite, exploitation and corrupt politicians that take theyr money overseas and don't develope nothing, not to mention that most arican countries are severly ethnically heterogenous and divided unlike most of the countries from the rest of the world where you can easaly integrate different immigrants in the dominant culture, and i diddn't even started saying anything about the extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure or any meaningfull industry will or mentality to build a modern society.
13:19 Genuine question: Why are all the people wearing life vests on the boats? Is it so unsafe, is it an insurance thing or can many people simply not swim in Lagos? Let me know... Anyway, always interesting to see more from a part of the world I don‘t know as much about as I would like to. Thanks DW Lagos! 🙂
Genuine answer: most lagosians, actually majority of Nigerians can't swim except for the few that live in coastal areas. Recently this year, a popular local actor died from drowning after the boat he and his crew was in capsized and that triggered more attention towards use of life jacket. Hello from Nigeria
Lagos has got projections... industries are springing up in the ibeju lekki corridor. Tell us what the Kano government is doing that will make people migrate to Kano
These projections only work if current trends continues. Development sometimes changes the entire trajectory of population. For now, the more developed a nation becomes the lower the child birth
yes but their population is so young that even if birthrates start declining right now it's gonna take a long time until population starts declining, probably only in 2100.
Your report about water needs fact checking, do you mean their is no bore hole in Lagos or the resident do not have water filter. The report is not factual, with statistics. If you have a month rent in London, take example 2,000GBP, you will be able to pay a year rent in Lagos, with efficient system. Please, stop all this one sided story, compare what you are getting to what you are spending. Stop missing lies with truth.
It never change, it always has been, majority of the world is who they are because of Africa…What you will see that it is The Original and Only Civilization, all knoweldge was stolen from Kemet(egypt) but Originals are still there…the people who built the Murs(pyramids) etc is coming from inner Africa, so the original is safe…what as it is moving towards it
These projections are LAUGHABLE. African economies won't allow for this type of growth. None of these countries have a secondary economy or a quarternary sector. DW News is the ultimate Africa hype clickbait channel. They have to keep their ADSENSE going.
I don't know if the whole of Africa will get rich anytime soon or if will there be hope for it to happen. Africa is a lost and hopeless continent. (Except for Botswana though probably)
All i have to say is, yoruba lagosians should do better, protesting against there brothers because of 5k is the worst thing ever, those people find it difficult to reason well, so sad, why protesting against protest and against igbos, because of little change, shame on this people
