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  • Population grew exponentially and it grew fast, half the worlds population grew in one lifetime.
  • In denser areas they are having less kids than big families
  • Bangladesh, first year of independence 7 babies per year with 50 year life span.
  • Bangladesh is now 2.5 babies
  • 1963: 5 babies per woman 2012: 2.5 babies per woman 
  • Family planning, vaccines, and cleanliness helped keep the babies per woman down in Bangladesh even in the slums.
  • Not as many deaths when you have children now because of the advancements.
  • Peak child at 2 children
  • Extreme Poverty, can buy shoes, then bicycle, then motorbike, then car, then fly by plane
  • When you make $100 all people with lower amount of money seem poor.
  • Some people doctor the scales in Africa 
  • 80% are literate 
  • as income rises then lifespan rises 
  • the ones that are rising are china and India in 1963 Asia was basically in extreme poverty
  • Then after time then its little population that is even in extreme poverty but still 1 billion.
  • New technology could take out extreme poverty 




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