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How would one explain triple the population size in India and China in comparison to the US and Europe? The answer is not less infant mortality. The answer is
by fleddr 4y ago
How would one explain triple the population size in India and China in comparison to the US and Europe?
The answer is not less infant mortality. The answer is rice, versus potatoes/wheat. You can harvest rice 3 to 4 times per year versus just once per year for potatos. And rice doesn't grow in Europe, it doesn't have the climate.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoMaybe you have different numbers than I can find but all of the graphs of population growth show pretty much the same thing for India or China as they do for other countries: an almost flat increasing trend that hockey-sticks as soon as the country modernizes and then begins to level off or decrease as education catches up. The historical population of India seems large until you consider that the subcontinent is the size of Europe and then factor in the earlier start they had compared to Europe and there's no mystery left.
- throw0101a 4y ago> The answer is rice, versus potatoes/wheat. […] And rice doesn't grow in Europe, it doesn't have the climate. Perhaps the answer then is "climate" and not any particular foodstuff.