Re: Politically Correct Description of the Third World

[Doug Pensinger]

Erik Reuter wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:56:07PM +1300, Bob Henderson wrote:
> 
> > and availability of basic health care was a factor(:>). And why is
> > the richest country with 4% of the world popln consuming 26% of the
> > world's resources ranked behind Canada and Norway?
> 
> Was this statistic on the cited website? Where does this number come
> from?
> 

>From CIA World Factbook
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html):

World Population 6.08 E9
U.S. Population 0.275 E9
U.S. Percentage: 4.52%

World Energy Consumption: 12.34 E9 Kwh
U.S. Consumption 3.37 E9 Kwh
U.S. Percentage 27.26%

Figures from the field listings section of the factbook. I calculated the
percentages.

Doug
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