Rector Gérard-François DUMONT
Executive summary: Since its creation, the objective of the BRICS+ group has been to present a unit capable of promoting a powerful path within the concert of nations, a voice intended, according to the original intention, to compete with the G7. Each of their summits is an opportunity to assert their weight on the international scene, a weight that is demographically reinforced by the enlargements of 2024–25 to five new countries. BRICS+ can thus highlight their demographic weight with ten countries together representing 3.8 billion inhabitants, i.e. almost half of the world’s population (48.1%), a figure much higher than the cumulation of the populations of the G7 member States or the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. However, are differences in the weight and natural demographic trajectories between Member States not factors making it difficult to adopt common positions? Similarly, are their varied migration systems elements of cohesion or, on the contrary, fragmentation?
Keywords: BRICS, BRICS+, geopolitical, geopolitical population, population, power, UN, UN Security Council, immigration, emigration, South Africa, Brazil, China, India, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Russia.
Abstract: Since its creation, the objective of the BRICS+ group has been to present a united front capable of asserting a powerful voice within the international community, a voice intended, according to its original purpose, to act as an alternative to the G7. Each summit provides an opportunity to reaffirm their global weight, a weight that has increased demographically with the enlargement to five new member countries in 2024–2025. As a result, the BRICS+ can now highlight their demographic significance, with ten countries representing a combined population of 3.8 trillion people, or nearly half of the world’s population (48.1%), which is considered to be higher than the combined populations of the G7 member states or the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. However, do the disparities in demographic weight and natural population trajectories among member states hinder the formation of common positions? And do their diverse migration systems constitute elements of unity or, conversely, sources of fragmentation?
Key-wordsBRICS, BRICS+, geopolitics, geopolitics population, population, power, United Nations, UN Security Council, immigration, emigration, South Africa, Brazil, China, India, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Russia.
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