I'll try to present an overview of different countries around the globe, in “study format”.
The Horn of Africa: Somalia
Geography
Somalia is located on the east coast of Africa. In the hilly north, altitudes above sea level ranges from 900 and 2,200 meters. On the other hand, southern and central part of Somalia is flat (alt. < 180 meters).
Health
Life Expectancy at Birth: 48 years for males, and 46 years for females.
It's even worst when Somalian would like to see a doctor. There is one (1) ! physician available for around 19,100 people, imagine that in your country. People would go berserk. UNICEF, several diseases that cause more than half of all deaths among youth.
Diseases: malaria ( in the West people simply do not die anymore from malaria, it was gone in the 1950's)Diarrhoeal disease-related dehydration, respiratory infections, cholera, tuberculosis.
Population: ~ 9mln (est.)
Capital: M O G A D I S H U
Per Capita Income /Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 600$ / 4.5 billion.
Inflation rate: 100%, (some report even more than 100%).
Somalia like many other African nations is rich in natural resources such as: copper, salt, uranium.
Occupation (labor force): 80% agriculture, 20% industry and services.
Internet users: ~ 2000.
In 2009, the main source of income for many young Somalians came from Piracy (not from downloading illegal files from the Internet) but from the old fashioned Piracy at Sea. Roger Middleton, a piracy expert at London-based think-tank Chatham House, reported than Somalis made in 2008 about $80 mln in ransom money. Now that a lot of dineros.
Religion: 99.9% Muslim.
Link to full report on Pirates by Roger Middleton (12 pages).
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/12203_1008piracysomalia.pdf
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