Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2020), para. 47
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35. Notes with concern that continued rapid population growth in the least developed countries, which is currently 2.3 per cent annually, is projected to double the population of many of them between 2019 and 2050, notes that, in the least developed countries, the number of adolescents and youth aged from 15 to 24 years is projected to grow from 207 million in 2019 to 336 million in 2050, and underlines the importance of integrating population dynamics into national development strategies and plans to facilitate targeted investment in the health and modern science - based education of the young people who will soon join the labour force, with a view to ensuring their successful integration into the labour market and leveraging the opportunities presented by the demographic dividend;