According to the World Bank, each year an additional five million turn 15, “crossing the threshold from childhood to adulthood.” Given the slow pace of positive structural transformation, the Bank projects that over the next decade only one in four African youth will find regular employment as a salaried worker, and that only a small fraction of those will be in the formal sector of modern enterprises.
撒哈拉以南非洲一半人口不到25岁。根据世界银行的数据，每年都有500万新增15岁以上人口，而15岁是“告别童年，进入成年的门槛”。由于积极结构转型速度缓慢，世界银行预测，在未来十年中，只有四分之一的非洲年轻人能找到固定的有薪工作，而这些人中又只有一小部分可以进入现代企业正式部门。