Population Terms
Annual number of births per 1000 people.
What is Crude Birth Rate?
7,546,000,000
What is the world's population?
Diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments.
What are blood diamonds or conflict diamonds?
This Kikuyu quote is where the title comes from.
What is "When Elephants fight, it is the ground that suffers?"
Soon to surpass China as the most populous country on earth.
Where is India?
Bulgaria has the highest of this, with 15/1000.
What is crude death rate?
This country is the 3rd most populous.
Where is the United States?
Diamonds mined from rivers.
What is alluvial diamonds?
When armed combatants actively seek out any and all members of a group in an attempt to eradicate that group.
What is genocide?
This country is shrinking, expected to shrink by half by the end on this century.
Where is Japan?
In 2008 for the first time in world history more than 50% of the worlds population was living in these areas.
What is urban areas or cities?
46% of the population in the region of Middle Africa.
What is are under 15 years old?
This process required diamond producers to certify that all rough diamond exports are produced through legitimate mining and sales activities and are "conflict-free."
That is the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS)?
Jimmy and his brothers walk away from home every evening to avoid this rebel group.
What is the Lord's Resistance Army?
The only one of the modern countries that will continue growing substantially for the next 50 years because of immigration.
Where is the United States?
What is infant mortality rate?
People live longest in this country, both men and women.
Where is San Marino?
This former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted by an international tribunal of arming, supporting and guiding a brutal rebel movement that committed mass atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s.
Who is Charles Taylor?
Jimmy and his brothers go to this town.
Where is Gulu, Uganda?
Scientists who study population trends use these to visually compare countries' populations.
What is a population pyramid?
This country has and GNI PPP/capita rate of $124,740.
Where is Qatar?
Ethiopia's projected to be the 10th most populous nation then.
When is 2050?
Diamonds are forever was the slogan this company developed to sell diamonds for weddings.
What is the DeBeer's company?
This group forces Toma and her village to flee to a refugee camp.
What is the Janjaweed?
The typical citizen of the world, ethnically, according to National Geographic magazine.
Who is a Han Chinese man?