matt's ex-roommate jess had a link to the gapminder website on her blog- i was particularly amazed by the changes in the population and life expectancy in rwanda. i feel like a little bit of a rwanda expert because i saw the excellent movie "hotel rwanda" starring don cheadle and that really helped improve my understanding of the situation. i guess i missed most of what was going on there in the early nineties, when the life expectancy in rwanda dropped to just 24 years and population decreased by more than 800,000 people, because that wasn't a time when i was really "up" on current events, unless by current events you mean what happened on the most recent episode of "friends."
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2 comments:
Pretty interesting. Africa taken alone doesn't follow the regression. Why is that? A few high-end rich whities in some countries throwing it off the pattern?
south africa.
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