Maníngue Nice: Power Lines.

Mozambique Stats

-An estimated 1,000,000 people died (1/20th of the population today) in their brutal civil war.

-The average life span is 48 years old, in the U.S. it is 78 years old

-Average income is $1.20/day

-Geographically Mozambique's coast is a little bigger than from Los Angeles, CA to Seattle, WA

-Mozambique's UN human development ranking is 172/177. (177 is the most underdeveloped country)

-Mozambique does not have a paved highway from top to bottom

-Mozambique does not have a railway system from top to bottom either

-145 of every 1000 children born in Mozambique die before reaching the age of 5, in the U.S. that number is 7/1000.

-47% of Mozambique is literate

-16% of Mozambique has HIV

-for every 100,000 people in Mozambique, there are only 6 physicians (that would never be called physicians by U.S. standards) This is compared with the U.S. number of 256 physicians per 1,000 people

-7 out of 1000 people have the internet

-43% of the population drinks clean water

-32% uses improved sanitation

-64% of the 20 million Mozambicans live in rural villages, most of them are farmers

Source

Maníngue Nice

Monday, July 18, 2011

Power Lines.

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