CIA Worldbook Facts

Today we looked at and learned about the CIA wordbook website, which is where you can look at a countries statistics, like their population and economy. One fact I found interesting was in Liberia their birth rate is much higher than their death rate. Their total fertility rate is 5.06 children per women and their birth rate is 38.3 births. Their death rate is 7.6, which is much lower. This fact is surprising to me because even though the birth rate makes sense, I would expect the death rate to be a little closer to the birth rate because of their health issues. Liberia is one of the wettest countries but they don't have the resources to provide clean water to every home and their infant mortality rate is 52.2 deaths. Another fact I found interesting was that Canada has a higher net migration rate than the United Staes. Canada's migration rate is 5.7 migrants and the United States is 3.9 migrants. This is surprising to me because a lot of people talk about how great America is and how a lot of people come here to live a better life. I have never really heard anyone talk about Canada like that and I also just didn't know that people really migrated there. Also, I found it surprising that Japan has a much higher death rate than birth rate even though they have the highest life expectancy. Their birth rate is 7.7 and their death rate is 9.8. I would expect the death rate to be lower than that because there are so many people that live for a long time. They also have 0 migrants so their deaths are from the people that were born there. Germany has the fifth largest economy in the world because of their hard work and labor but it is getting more and more difficult because they have such a low fertility rate and they have a large increase on net immigration. Their fertility rate is 1.45 children and their net immigration rate is 1.5 migrants. It is surprising that they have such a good economy because they don't have many people, which would make it seem like their economy would be struggling. Also, I didn't know that people migrated to Germany, especially not more than women have children. The last thing I found interesting on this website was that Italy has a very close net migration rate to the United States. Italy has a net migration rate of 3.7 migrants and the United States has 3.9 migrants. I thought Italy was pretty much just people who born there and then people who went there for vacation. Their economy is actually widely based on their advanced technology, which was also a surprise because I thought it would be more on tourism.