asia & africa driving global growth
- Asia holds 55.07% of the World’s Population, 22.07% of the World’s Land Mass and 30.27% of the World’s GDP.
- During the 20th century Asia’s population quadrupled and the population has grown from 1.4 billion in 1950 to over 4 billion today.
- 2 billion additional people to urbanise by 2030 globally – 75% of these are in Asia.
- Asia currently accounts for approximately 53.34% of global mineral production and 33.74% of global mineral reserves (China being the largest component with 64.83% of Asia’s mineral production and 40.54% of Asia’s mineral reserves and 32.06% of Asia’s land mass).
- Africa is the second most populous continent with 1.1 billion people or 16% of the world’s population.
- Africa is the largest continent in the world by land mass with 22.6%.
- Africa currently accounts for only 3.1% of the World’s GDP.
- Africa currently accounts for approximately 7.65% of global mineral production and 8.39% of global mineral reserves (South Africa being the largest component with 54.69% of Africa’s mineral production and 77.61% of Africa’s mineral reserves and 4.08% of Africa’s land mass).