Saturday, September 27, 2014

CIA World Factbook

Yesterday in class, we were exploring more of the CIA fact book. The fact book is really nice because  you can learn a lot about different countries you want to know about or maybe you never even heard of. In class, some people showed us some facts they thought were interesting and cool about the statistics of some other countries. Some I thought were interesting were that the number 1 religion in Bangladesh is Muslim. Also that the country Chad has a very low literacy percentage. The other categories were like the life expectancies and the ethnic groups and languages etc. I also like how there are some pictures for every country just to get an idea of what there is in those countries and how it looks. Also, when you go on each like fact page of every country, it shows the flag and where it is located in the world. There are so many things you can learn about anything you pretty much want to know. 96.8% of people in Albania can read and write which I think is interesting because I wasn't sure they really cared as much about education maybe because they don't really speak any English. Most of the people in Barbados are black, about 92% to be more specific, and only like 2% are white. The literacy percentage in Barbados is like 99% which is really good and that means the country is developing more and may even be close to being fully developed. The expected number of years people are in school there are about 15, which makes sense and you could tell that education is more important so maybe people who live there could get more job opportunities in the US like to run a business. The economy in Barbados seems stable, but it's still trying to develop and get better in every way possible. There are tons of facts I could list but that would be too much to write. The CIA fact book just shows how much information the CIA can get from every country there is from the biggest country in the world to the smallest.

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