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Regarding Afghanistan—there're many other “young” countries, f.ex. check Burundi, Venezuela, Madagascar. To be fair, the graph by itself doesn't tell whether th
by goblin89 14y ago
Regarding Afghanistan—there're many other “young” countries, f.ex. check Burundi, Venezuela, Madagascar. To be fair, the graph by itself doesn't tell whether the reason is high mortality rate or people expatriating, but admittedly the former is more likely…
- curtisholmes 14y agoHigher fertility rates are more likely the cause
- ipince 14y agoI'm from Venezuela. I guess this doesn't affect these global numbers, but mortality is pretty high due to rampant crime. 20,000 were murdered in 2011. Murder rate is much much higher than other nations that get more media coverage, such as Mexico or Colombia. Caracas' murder rate was #1 in the world not too long ago. Another thing is immigration. Pretty much most people who can leave, leave. However I recently read that less than 50,000 Venezuelans have emigrated to the US in the past 5 years, which is less than, say, Colombia (over 50k). We hope we can turn the country around. Presidential elections are in 4 days.