CIA World fact book assignment

    The World Fact book contains a lot of helpful information about The United States and many other places. I chose Fiji. Fiji's birth rate is 18.6. This blows me away because that is a lot of babies. I think that its so shocking because the United States is such a large place and its birth rate is only 12.5. When I think of Fiji, I think of this small place but with the birth rate that high I change my perspective. In class we are studying birth rate, so to find this out about Fiji is very cool and surprising.

   In class we also learned about life expectancy. The life expectancy in Iceland is 83.1 years. For males it is 80.9 and for females it is 85.4 years old. I think that 80-85 is a nice long life to live. I thought that the number was going to be a little bit higher considering it being in Europe. We also learned that women have a longer life expectancy than men because men are the breadwinners for the family and tend to crazy things or have crazy jobs.

    We also learned about total fertility rate. The fertility rate in Algeria is 2.7 children born to a woman. This surprises me because Africa has a lot of problems there and the fact that they are only having having close to 3 children is shocking. Usually African families have 3 or more children. So the fertility rate seems a little low to me.

    Something else we learned was called net migration rate. The net migration rate in Costa Rica is 0.8 migrants per 1,000 people. This number doesn't surprise me because most people who are migrating want to migrate to America so the migration rate in Costa Rica is very low. Costa Rica is number 60 on the list of most migration to the least. Surprisingly The British Virgin Islands are the most populated place for migrants.

   In Finland the population is 5,518,371 million people. Finland is located in Europe and is 87.9% a Finnish speaking country. Then 5.2% Swedish and 1.4% Russian and 5.5% other. The population doesn't surprise me. My dad frequently goes to Finland for business and says its a great place. Finland is mostly rural area filled with cute little towns. The capital is Helsinki.