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Interesting, but I would of assumed most countries in the ME to have such a high young % due to the ongoing wars/invasions/attacks in that region. It'd be inte
by infinitone 12y ago
Interesting, but I would of assumed most countries in the ME to have such a high young % due to the ongoing wars/invasions/attacks in that region. It'd be interesting to correlate this with the female % of population, may be similar.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoI am sure the correlates with the flattening of the world population, to the extent that wars and mismanagement of resources are mitigated world wide the birth rates rise and then flatten out. One of those times where you wish you had statistics from 0 to present.
- tokenadult 12y agoA lot of demographers would say that the causation goes the other way around from what you said, in other words that countries with young populations tend to get involved in more wars and more domestic unrest.
- bodyfour 12y agoYep -- all you need to get a good war going is an excess of young men and a border. For a domestic conflict you can skip the second part. Or you can look at it from a purely economic standpoint: if your military-aged men are mostly finding gainful employment and you want to raise an army you need to either conscript or pay competitive wages. Either way you're damaging your economy. If you have far more people that age then prospective jobs it's way cheaper to convince some of them to put on a uniform.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoThe Middle East really isn't that bad compared to much of Central Asia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and so on... Even North Korea looks good in living standard and life expectancy compared to many African countries.
- Joeri 12y agoI find North and South Korea to be a fascinating demonstration of the effectiveness of governmental policy to shape people's quality of life, for better or worse.
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