Stumbled on this!
I stumbled upon this site http://www.breathingearth.net which displays a simulation of CO2 emissions of each country along with birth rates and death rates.
Here is what I found interesting:
USA
1 person dies here every 5.4 seconds
1 person born here every 12.8 seconds
India
1 person dies here every 25.8 seconds
1 person born here every 3.5 seconds
Gabon ( A possible future destination for me!)
1 person dies here every 2.5 hours
1 person born here every 31.5 minutes
Suprised? And to think that people visualize poverty,squalor, and violence on the mention of Africa... Anyone care to explain this "anomalous" observation?
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1 comment:
Actually pretty easy. India's population is so much more than Gabon's, so a lot more people die/are born per second. It hasn't been normalised to the total population. Although the first statistic could be wrong because statistics show USA still has a positive population growth rate.
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