I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to statistics. I hated them in uni, but the older I get, and the more I immerse myself in world issues, the more I find myself craving more and more and more!
(It's okay if you call me a little weird, I think I am too).
So today I got told of a great site.
Index Mundi has one of the most complete country profile list of any website out there. If you want to find out things like birth rates, death rates, HIV rates (living, death, males, females, etc), population growth, production and consumption charts, quite literally ANYTHING about a country and how it ranks against other countries, this is the site for you.
So, after reading this site, get this (accurate as of 1 January 2008):
Highest population growth rate? UAE with 3.83% (Rwanda is #20 with 2.78%)
Highest birth rate? Niger, with 49.62 births/1000 population (Rwanda is #20 with 39.97)
Highest death rate? Swaziland, with 30.7 deaths/1000 population (Rwanda is #25 with 14.46)
Highest rate of people living with HIV/AIDS? South Africa with 5.3 MILLION people (Rwanda is #30 with 250,000)
Highest rate of people who have died from HIV/AIDS? South Africa with 370,000 (Rwanda is #25 with 22,000)
There are some pretty sobering statistics on that site. South Africa with 5.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS is the one that blew me away. There's so much I could say about that statistic, and the reasons as to why it's so high - but I try to keep politics out of my blog. It gets me in too much trouble!
Maybe this won't interest anybody else. But if you have a passion for a particular country, and you want to know how they measure up against other countries in regards to demographics or financials or whatever - it might be worth checking out the site.
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