Re: [Phys-L] CU-Boulder Plots To Extend Life of Al Bartlett's Famous Lecture on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu>]

Actually, in the link I happened to forward (it was the first one I came
to),

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html

there is an entry (#32) for Gaza-Strip (4.41) but as you say there is West
Bank (2.91), not Palestine. The likely cause is that this is the American
CIA site, but on the other hand it could also be that it is considered
useful to give separate data for the West Bank and Gaza, whereas Palestine
is a name that ought to include both. Certainly the quoted fertility rates
in the two areas are quite different.

Bruce


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:

> On 2013, Aug 14, , at 09:24, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > The good news is that of the 224 countries listed, in half of them the
> rate
> > is less than 2.1, the approximate "replacement" number. The bad news is
> of
> > course the other half, many but not all in Africa. The good news is that
> in
> > the low-fertility half there are lots of surprising names -- take a look.
> >
> > Bruce
> > ____
> Another good news, I pray, is many of the very high rate countries are
> ones whose health care has recently improved, yet, because recent, not
> begun the demographic transition.  I expect them to, in a generation, begin
> a sharp downward trend.  Unfortunately, OTOH, some of the low ones will
> increase, because the low value now is do to war, i.e. the Balkans.  The
> list is old, i.e. no Kosovo and Syria is now, I'm rather certain much lower.
>
>
> Palestine and Gaza are missing.  West Bank instead;  Is that some sort of
> political statement?
>
> bc
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