Thursday, April 30, 2009

WHOOOOO Are You, WHO WHO WHO WHO

The first thing I noticed about Cameroon is the life expectancy rate for men and women. For men its 50 years, and for women its 51 years. The WHO African Region life expectancy rate for men is 47 years, and 49 years for women. Despite the large rate of Malaria related deaths for children under 5, I calculated that the people of Cameroon can expect to live 2.5 years longer than the people of the WHO African Region. I also realized that even though the leading cause of death for children under the age of 5 is Malaria, the leading cause of death for everyone is HIV/AIDS. And with kids dying young of Malaria, and adults dying of HIV/AIDS, the amount of children being made is decreasing. To prove this, it says that the annual growth rate for Cameroon in 2004 was 1.9, whereas it was 2.2 for the WHO African Region

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