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Social Sciences and History / Unit 11   SSH 1009 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Infant Mortality, Life Expectancy, Morbidity

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The idea

The infant mortality rate is infant deaths per thousand live births; countries with low development tend to have high rates. Life expectancy is the statistically expected years of life from birth; the anchor's global figure is about seventy-two in twenty fifteen, voiced with its year.

In practice

A cartogram sizing countries by population.

Where people slip

Uneven growth and poverty lead to migration.

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