#1 Population 1960----27.8 million
#2 Population 20008 ---81.87
#3 Current population growth rate----2%/yr (doubles every 35 yr)
#4 Population projected for 2046----164 million
#5 Average rainfall over entire nation--2 inches/yr
#6 Alexandria rainfall (countries largest)---7.9 inches/yr
#7 Arable land total country--2% all in Nile valley
#8 Imported food 40%
#9 imported grain 60%
#10 Net oil exports: began declining in 1998. None in 2010
#11 cost of Oil increasing rapidly
#12 Cost of food increasing greatly
#13 50% live on less than $2 a day
#14 50% under are of 25
#15 unemployment large for this group
One does not have to be a master mathematician to analyse these number. They can not feed themselves. They are not exporting oil and will import next year (Oil revenues were being used to subsidize food prices, food prices almost doubled in the last 12 months). They have hoards of unemployed young people. Much of the country living in poverty. Does this look like a tinder box, or what? Catch this, their main revenue is exporting natural gas to Israel!
This is not the only country in this area with these statistics. Mexico is very close to the same.
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