In his annual open letter, Gates said that Africa is the youngest continent. What does he want to express?

Africa is the youngest continent? In what ways did Bill Gates see it?

an aging population. At present, most developed countries in the world are aging, especially those led by Japan, and the aging problem is more serious. In France, the French government even posted a slogan on the Eiffel Tower, please give birth to a child for France. This shows that the problem of aging in many countries has become very serious.

But because the education level in these countries is too high and people's families are mostly well-off, they have gradually changed their idea of having children. But when we look at the distant African continent, they are different from most countries in the world. Because of the early historical reasons, they were sold around as slaves, which caused their local labor force to be very insufficient, so the economy never developed rapidly. And local countries and races have been fighting for some resources for many years, and they have never been able to live a stable life. Coupled with the lack of local educational resources, people have no concept of a lot of scientific knowledge and can't develop their own country at all, which makes their country very backward. As the saying goes, the poorer you are, the poorer you are. Africa is a typical example, but it is precisely because of their lack of knowledge in this respect that their population is not seriously aging, and they are still very young, so Bill Gates will say that Africa is the youngest continent.

Second, of course, there is no way to compare the ages of all continents, but the African continent is really much younger from the perspective of humanistic society. Most of them still stay in the most primitive stage in the use of resources, living in the simplest houses and living in the most primitive self-sufficiency.

Therefore, the African continent is still a very backward younger brother, who is in urgent need of the help of brothers from all continents.