THE QUESTION
. Population is such a fundamental issue that we tend to forget it. Asked Monday on France Inter, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister from 2005 to 2007, after having had his heyday in 2003 for having opposed the Americans in the war in Iraq, recalled forcefully: “
Afghanistan has changed - 38 million (people) - whereas in 1996 there were 18 million Afghans. And besides, there are ten cities with more than one million inhabitants and Kabul has more than four million. The Afghan reality has changed, it is no longer that of twenty years ago. The Taliban will not have such flexible and easy leeway
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A challenge for the Taliban, of course, who must administer a country that is said to be rural, but which has rapidly urbanized and which has more very large cities than France ... but also demographic pressure fueling emigration, which has a manifest political character as well as an economic dimension.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, as it was called from January 2004 to August 15, 2021, has it really doubled its population since 1996, the year the Taliban seized power before being ousted five? years later ?
How is this galloping demographic growth changing the situation?
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