I'd like to see this as a percentage increase of the population. Basically, it's just a list of the most populated countries in the world with a few exceptions. But if this was percentage of population, it would be much more challenging. Also, technically wouldn't South Sudan be in the 2010s since it gained independence in 2011? That means that it went from 0 population to over 11 million? :-)
Read the second caveat - I assume that also means it takes the current southern Sudan's population as it was in 2010, and it counted the northern half for every other decade.
Canada should up here soon, when Resslessness updates it, the Canadian immigration site broke down after trump was elected, too many people moving to Canada.
If this was measured in terms of the number of Americans who threaten to move to Canada but never actually do, yeah, they'd be in the top 3 of every decade.
I met a guy in China who left the United States because Obama was elected. Not really sure how moving to an ostensibly communist country with far fewer freedoms than we have ameliorated any of his concerns, but I have to admire him for being the only American I have ever met who made good on a promise to leave if the wrong candidate was elected. Or maybe he was just full of it and moved for a different. Still though.
+jmellor he probably moved because here in China government market caps mean your dollars are worth at least three times their worth in the USA, and any American that speaks English can get a job as a teacher.
Makes as much sense as getting mad at the NSA for not respecting people's private data, illegally stealing tons of classified information, and then giving that data to the Russians and the Chinese without even reviewing it yourself, I guess?
To be fair Afghanistan has one of the higher birth rates in the world and even during the decades of civil war (which are mostly over) the death rate, while horrific, didn't even get close to directly affecting population. Now, with the Taliban in power, Afghanistan is 'mostly' stable, although ISIS-K is still a major problem and statebuilding for an organization used to guerilla warfare will be daunting.
You need to correct your model @levic. In the modern world, population growth rates are anti-correlated with wealth.
Less wealth = more population growth.
The fact that Afghanistan is run by religious extremists only increases the growth rate. This is why, absent revolutionary technology such as AI or artificial wombs, the future belongs to poor countries and extreme religious conservatives.
Less wealth = more population growth.
The fact that Afghanistan is run by religious extremists only increases the growth rate. This is why, absent revolutionary technology such as AI or artificial wombs, the future belongs to poor countries and extreme religious conservatives.
Don't like it? Start having more kids.