Statistics

While Andy (our son) was visiting at Christmas, a few questions came up about Rwanda and the surrounding area. We spent an hour on Wikipedia browsing tables of data about countries and it was a revealing and depressing experience concerning the state of Africa. In almost all the tables we looked at (“suicide rate” being the main exception), the “wrong end” of the table was dominated by countries in sub-Saharan Africa - poverty, child mortality, HIV/AIDS rates, etc.
Of course I knew at the back of my mind that this was the case, but seeing it shown in so many ways somehow brought it home again.