The Beeb has a nice graphic illustrating their article on Generation Next. Below you can see a map coloured to indicate the percentage of people per capita under 18 years of age. Readers of this blog will know that I'm not a fan of this type of cylindrical projection. I'd offer an alternative, but I don't have access to the data that the BBC used to generate the map. The article does credit the United Nations as being the source, but how about a direct link to the data?
As for the data - my reaction is that this distribution probably has an inverted relationship with that of percentage of population with access to the internet.
This data is amazingly misleading. The reason the population is high in the 18 year old range is that both the mortality and birth rate is well above average due to lack of economic empowerment.
Aids in Africa is becoming a serious issue and could yield a virtual genocide in the next decade.
What's sad is that this entire generation of people won't be able to thrive due to lack of access to capital. :-/
Posted by: Kevin Burton | December 02, 2006 at 06:02 PM