Browsing around in the UNICEF annual reportReplacement birth rate is normally 2.1 children/mother: you need a higher birthrate, naturally, if a lot of people are dying. The world as a whole has a birth rate of 2.6. East Asia/Pacific has 1.9: CEE/CIS (I think that means North America and Europe, because I don't see anything else either of those ( Read more... )

So Unicef has released its "State of the World's Children" report.

The BBC's lead article is that the UK is at the bottom of the "industrialized countries" for general child welfare. Nobody who's been paying attention is surprised that the US is down there too (UK, 21st: US, 20th). I don't know how the aggregate ranking is derived, though I've ( Read more... )