CIA World Fact Book Exploration

           The CIA World Fact Book is a website where all of the countries in the worlds averages on many different categories can all be found. It is extremely interesting to see the drastic differences amongst the world all in one spot. With this being said, the first category looked at was the median age 229 nations. The median age in the U.S. is 38.1 which ranks us at 60. The youngest median age is 15.4 which is in Niger. The difference in the age here is incredible. The U.S.'s median age is more then double but, that's what happens when people aren't living very long in Niger. Next, I took a look at the unemployment in the U.S. which is 10.4% which is extremely good compared to Bosnia and Herzegovina where it is 62.3%. Clearly, the U.S. is doing very good with unemployment rates. Then with population, U.S. ranks 3rd with 326,625,791 people and China is in first with 1,379,302,771 people. China has over one billion more people then the U.S. which is insane! Two things that are in close relation with one another are, maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate. In the U.S. the maternal mortality rate is 14 per 100,000 live births putting us at 138 out of 184 countries. This is significantly lower then the countries at the top which is very good. For the infant mortality rate the U.S. is sitting in 170 with 5.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate isn't incredible however, it is still better then Afghanistan with 110.6 per 1,000.
           Based off of all of the facts that we're found, the U.S. is fairly average. Within the five categories researched, as an overall country we aren't thriving but we also aren't suffering. Our fairly large population and technology we have plays a huge role in what our statistics are. We are a very advanced country and we will only continue to get better so, we could be moving up/down the list in very near years. All of this information ties back to class because every single category has some effect on population. Some of these numbers would draw people into the country or force people out which would affect our population.