Africa (was ...10 trillion people in this solar system?)

Hi,

>
> Omar E. Vega wrote:
>
> *If Indian starts to develop
> strongly it will be because it stopped its (population) growth.*
>
> Agree with you totally. But I don't think our bureaucrats and
politicians
> realize it. Our population has increased from less than 200
million to 1.2
> billion over 100 years. A six fold increase! And it is expected to
stabilize
> (at our present level of apathy) at about 1.6 billion. An eight
fold
> increase. Just callous indifference, nothing more.
>
> And another interesting fact, if you google any country in the
world you
> will discover its population immediately, but not India's. We like
to keep
> our heads in the sand : - )
>
> Economic pundits waste a lot of time and energy analyzing how and
why a
> country is surging ahead (after all they get their bread and
butter from
> such analysis). The simple answer to China's phenominal growth is,
if you
> have just one child to support, it is unlikely that that child
will be
> undernourished or that the parents will be unable to educate that
child.
>
> Regards
> Selvaraj
>

Totally agree!!

China has a booming economy because stopped population growth. That
was the trick. Indian could follow. I believe is going in the right
path. For instance do you know the percentage of India's population
which lives in cities? Is the educational level growing? Is people
getting a little bit ambitious these days? If so, those are the
early syntoms something is changing.

A nation where so many people loves math and play good chess
shouldn't be poor and won't be poor forever.

Regards,

Omar Vega