Human Geography: Alarming Fact #1

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Introducing a New Feature to The Human Geo Guy, it’s called, “Alarming Fact.” Instead of a full length blog post it will be a short, simple piece of information that mostly speaks for itself.

Alarming Fact: The average woman in Niger will give birth to 7 children.

The Human Geo Guy’s Take: Niger is one of the poorest countries on the planet and suffers from mass starvation. It has few prospects for economic development and any hope of their quality of life improving depends on being able to bring their population growth under control.

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