Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Corie Is Awesome World Fact Book

Let's see how long this whole daily post thing lasts...

Okay, so I rarely have homework. And when I do, it's usually really easy. So I decided that I would take more time with my posts. And do some research and find some facts and stuff to go along with my experience. Here are a couple reasons:

1. People like to ask which is better the US or Egypt. I don't know if you've been to or lived in both of these countries, but it's really freaking difficult to compare the two.

2. There is half a bullet point on the AFS pledge that I signed in New York says "...and teaching those who are interested about my culture..." This is really hard when you don't really know what American culture is. American culture is basically commercializing holidays and half naked celebrities. So I need to learn more about the US.

3. I am in one of those super motivated to climb a mountain and write a novel moods.

4. YOLO

In my brain I am preparing a list of things to compare between the US and Egypt. Don't worry, I'll still post my epiphanies and experiences and trips and pictures and everything. I'm just really curious about how different Egypt and the US really are, or how different they aren't.

This post is just going to be basic things. I have a pretty decent audience of international people. I was looking at my stats and there could be between 40 and 200 people reading this right now. Some Egyptian, some American, some both, some neither. Nevertheless, here is an introduction to the US and Egypt.

Population:
US: 318,892,103
Egypt: 86,895,099

Ethnic groups:
US: white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61%
Egypt: Egyptian 99.6%, other 0.4%

Religion:
US: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%
Egypt: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 90%, Christian (majority Coptic Orthodox, other Christians include Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, Maronite, Orthodox, and Anglican) 10%

Life expectancy at birth:
US: 79.56
Egypt: 73.45

Literacy:
US: 99%
Egypt:73.9%

Obesity (adult prevalence rate):
US: 33% 
Egypt: 33.1%

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary):
US: 17 years
Egypt: 13 years

Manpower available for military:
US: 145,212,012 male and female age 16-49
Egypt: 41,157,220 male and female age 16-49

You essentially could have logged on to the CIA (Corie Is Awesome) world fact book, but I brought it to you. There's a million more numbers on there if you want to find out more. I did this out of sheer curiosity, but now I know more things and so do you. And who knows, maybe we're one step closer to better world understanding.

Stay beautiful.

Byeeeeeee

Corie.

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