Birth rates are three to four times higher in the Sahel than in other parts of the world, leading to a “youth bulge,” a term used when OPENING THE a state’s population includes a disproportionately large cohort of DEMOGRAPHIC WINDOW young adults, typically between the ages of 15 and 29 years old. [...] Given current fertility rates, none of multiple social, economic, and security benefits the Sahelian countries are projected to enter the “demographic that in turn address the root causes of fragility window”—a period of time when a country’s age structure, paired and insecurity. [...] LEVERAGING INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE SAHEL The United States can build on its prior investments in the region, but it also has the opportunity to take a leadership role in encouraging other members of the international community to contribute. [...] contributions to family planning in the same time period were approximately $65 million.2 While the United States finances the lion’s share of global family planning, investments in this area have stagnated over the past decade. [...] As the youngest continent in the world, Africa’s population was able to weather the pandemic better from a health perspective, but the interruptions to the global supply chain and food supplies have had an outsized impact, with cascading impacts on humanitarian and development spending.
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