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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (1684)	3/18/1999 1:47:00 AM
From: Dan Spillane	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2539

While the UK is "burdened" with its horrible GM plague... African Life Expectancy Cut by AIDS AP Online, Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 00:05 WASHINGTON (AP) - AIDS has cut the average life expectancy in Zimbabwe by a quarter-century, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is now 39 years, down from 65 were it not for the AIDS epidemic, the bureau said in a report being released Thursday. Other African nations also have experienced significant reductions in life expectancy because of AIDS. ''AIDS results in higher mortality rates in childhood, as well as among young adults where mortality otherwise is low,'' said Karen Stanecki, a contributing author of the Census Bureau's new report, ''World Population Profile: 1998.'' ''As a result, AIDS deaths will have a larger impact on life expectancies than on some other demographic indicators in these nations.'' Other African nations besides Zimbabwe and the estimated reduction in life expectancy due to AIDS: Botswana, from 62 to 40 years; Burkina Faso, 55 to 46; Burundi, 55 to 46; Cameroon, 59 to 51; Central African Republic, 56 to 49; Republic of the Congo, 57 to 47; Congo, 54 to 49; Ethiopia, 51 to 41; Ivory Coast, 57 to 46; Kenya, 66 to 48; Lesotho, 62 to 54; Malawi, 51 to 37; Namibia, 65 to 42; Nigeria, 58 to 54; Rwanda, 54 to 42; South Africa, 65 to 56; Swaziland, 58 to 39; Tanzania, 55 to 46; Uganda, 54 to 43; and Zambia, 56 to 37. Other findings from the report: -The world population will reach 6 billion in 1999. -Between 1998 and 2025, the world's elderly population (age 65 and over) will more than double while the world's young (under age 15) will grow by only 6 percent. -About 96 percent of world population increase now occurs in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. -A child born in Latin America or Asia can expect to live between seven and 13 fewer years, on average, than one born in North America or Western Europe.