The other day, I was looking at the list of the ten countries most hardly hit by infant mortality (according to the CIA World Fact Book 2005). The top 10 (or should I say Bottom 10) is:
- Angola (197.8 for 100 births) after a civil war between 1975 and 2002
- Afghanistan (163.07 for 100 births) in a more or less continuous war since the entry of soviet tanks end of 1979
- Sierra Leone (162.55 for 100 births) in a civil war since 1991 (The UN forces retired in 2005, without having obtained peace)
- Liberia (161.99 for 100 births) in a nearly permanent civil war since 1989
- Mozambique (130.79 for 100 births) in civil war and in war with its neighbours from 1975-6 to 1992
- Niger (119.69 for 100 births) in a state of political instability since 1974
- Somalia (116.70 for 100 births) in war with Ethiopa or in civil war since 1977
- Tajikistan (110.76 for 100 births) in a civil war from 1992 to 1997, with stationned troups from Russia, US and France since 2001
- Mali (109.47 for 100 births)
- Guinea Bissau (107.15 for 100 births) in a civil war since 1998
Is it me or almost all of them are in war zones? Cause or consequence?
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