Is the 2007 blog post titled "The Rule of Law without the State" from a well known libertarian organization your only source for these statistics?
> verify any of these statistics yourself
Do you define verify any of these statistics as 25% of these statistics? Because I could only find the following on the CIA page. (The UNDP and the IMF list Somalia as data deficient.)
- Physicians per 100,000:4 (this is tenth lowest and FYI the CIA uses per 1k)
- Infant mortality: 3rd highest 100 Afghanistan highest at 114.
- Maternal morbidity: 1,000 3rd behind South Sudan (2,000) and Chad (1,100)
>Is the 2007 blog post titled "The Rule of Law without the State" from a well known libertarian organization your only source for these statistics?
The article is using the following sources as mentioned therein: "statistical data from the United Nations Development Project, World Bank, CIA, and World Health Organization"
You obviously have some sort of state apologist agenda by your intellectually dishonest statements here.
If you are going to start spitting out statistics, you better provide a source as well.
"Physicians per 100,000:4 (this is tenth lowest and FYI the CIA uses per 1k)"
Where are you getting 4 per 100K from? The CIA factbook says 4 per 1,000.
"Infant mortality: 3rd highest 100 Afghanistan highest at 114."
"Maternal morbidity: 1,000 3rd behind South Sudan (2,000) and Chad (1,100)"
Meanwhile the the facts are: 'Infant mortality per 1,000 births fell from 152 to 114.9' and 'Maternal mortality per 100,000 births fell from 1,600 to 1,100'
The point is there was improvement, not that Somalia is a great place to live based on first-world country standards, so saying, "Oh that is still the 3rd worst in the world!" is utterly irrelevant.
"Sanitation Down to 23%"
After an increase in the period discussed, the first 5 years of anarchy. The CIA Factbook currently says 23.6% for improved sanitation facilities, versus 26% mentioned in the article. Is this 3 percentage points of decrease that important?
The fact remains that things have generally gotten better for Somalia despite the terrible military and economic intervention.
I thought I had provided a source when I started spitting out sentences and statistics like: "Because I could only
find the following on the CIA page." But I can make it even easier for you if you would like:
>> "Physicians per 100k:4 (this is 10th lowest...)"
> Where are you getting 4 per 100K from?
> The CIA factbook says 4 per 1,000.
Or do you need a source for the math? I do not think converting 0.04/1,000 to 4/100,000 is part of the proprietary math instruction I received at the state-apologist reeducation camp.
> The CIA Factbook currently says 23.6% for improved
> sanitation facilities, versus 26% mentioned in the
> article. Is this 3 percentage points of decrease that
> important?
I was not making a judgement about the merits of the 3% drop, merely reporting what I found when I could only verify 25% of the stats that you said I could verify any of. You thought that an 8% increase was noteworthy, why is a 3% move the other way so inconsequential? I just noticed that you emphasized improved this is getting to bee too much, did you read the definition of improved?
> Meanwhile the the facts are: 'Infant mortality per 1,000 births fell from 152 to 114.9' and 'Maternal mortality per 100,000 births fell from 1,600 to 1,100'
> The point is there was improvement, not that Somalia
> is a great place to live based on first-world country
> standards, so saying, "Oh that is still the 3rd worst
> in the world!" is utterly irrelevant.
When I said the problem in Somalia was "failed economy and no rule of law" you replied that I "obviously have no
clue about the real happenings of Somalia." Nothing you have presented points to the conclusion that the economy has not failed or that Somalia is reaping the benefits of the rule of law. "Things have improved, Somalia is no longer the absolute worst place to live on earth" is not the same as "functional economy and effective national government."
- Physicians per 100,000:4 (this is tenth lowest and FYI the CIA uses per 1k)
- Infant mortality: 3rd highest 100 Afghanistan highest at 114.
- Maternal morbidity: 1,000 3rd behind South Sudan (2,000) and Chad (1,100)
- Sanitation Down to 23%