Foreign Policy: The List: Five Population Trends to Watch:
"Between 1992 and 2004, 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa lost an average of 0.7 percentage points of economic growth per year because of HIV-AIDS, the International Labor Organization estimates. By 2020, 23 sub-Saharan countries will have lost more than 9 percent of their working-age populations, with Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe losing over 35 percent of their workforces. With able-bodied working-age adults dropping out of the population, who will be there to teach children to read, grow food, work factories, run government agencies, and keep the economy going?"
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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