Merry Christmas 2023

 Thought You might enjoy a copy of what we sent this year.  There are two pages... so you will want to scroll down.  All the best for 2024.

The Five Biggest Changes to our Culture and Economy in My Lifetime

 

 

To deny that technology drives cultural change is deciding to keep our heads in the sand.  Every single change for good or bad creates a cultural shift that cannot be reversed.  Many people try to avoid these changes but ultimately they are left behind.  It not that we must embrace them all right away, but to ignore them is false economy.  These are the FIVE DISRUPTIVE CHANGES IN MY LIFETIME:

Post War Infrastructure Boom

After world war two, infrastructure changes that the Eisenhower administration implemented changed our lives forever.  One was the change from rail travel to air travel.  After the war air travel struggled until 1955 when more people traveled by air than by rail.  Then in 1956 the Boeing 707 passenger jet was introduced. Ten years later I traveled to Europe on a 707.  Unthinkable a decade earlier.  

In 1957 the beginning of the Interstate highway system began. Patterned after the Autobahn that Eisenhower saw in Europe during the war.  

Both of these developments have changed EVERYTHING.  We now travel freely and fast.  Sure there are people who drive back roads to certain destinations. I do some times.  But when I want to get there, I drive the interstate.  This innovation also allowed freight to shift from Train to Truck.  

There are still people who try to travel by rail for nostalgia. That is falling away. Only in certain corridors like the east coast can such travel be used well.

That all happened in the late 1950s and in ten years everything was different.  Your can point to the upheavals in the 1960s and 70s to these changes.

Personal Computers

In 1971 John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1 was introduced as the first personal computer. Designed before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board.

The breakthrough came however in 1977 as Commodore and Apple introduced the first useful personal  computers.  In ten years the personal computer changed everything.  I had a software company, we built businesses around the personal computer.  By 1987 the ubiquitous nature of the computer dominated all innovation.  Automating everything. Power moved from mainframe to powerful distributed computer processing.  

Sure there are people who tried to do things the old way, but they soon were left on the side of the road.  The computer age was here and everything changed.

The Internet

In 1993 the world wide web was introduced.  The internet of things.  Oh it had existed in rudimentary form but the first web browser was introduced that year.  Soon there were many innovations.  Introductions of browsers, search engines and software that ran inside those browsers.  Fortunes were made and at the end of 1999 the dot com boom busted and fortunes were lost.  But.. not all of them.  In 1998 GOOGLE was born.  Now it is a giant.  I didn't invest.  I thought it would never work.  Was I wrong.  Now Google owns everything is seems.  During those formative years of the internet Amazon, Microsoft and others emerged.  Disruptive technologies that changed everything.  Sure there are people that still use the old ways... when they can find them.  Remember card decks a the public library.  The search engine of its day.  Now gone.

The Smartphone

The first smart phone, the Apple I-Phone was first introduced in 2007.  Now 16 years later it has become an essential extension nearly every person on the planet's life.  Not only as a communication device, but as a text portal, a camera and a million some useful (some not) applications.  You can go to darkest Africa, to Russia, to anywhere and you find these handhelds in every pocket.  To say that they haven't changed everything is intentional blindness.  Not all for better.  Social media has been harmful in some ways, but the capacity to talk directly to anyone on the globe using apps like Whatsapp is a miracle of a combination of technologies.  We aren't  going back.

Ai

Artificial Intelligence.  It's on everyone's mind.  This will once again change everything. It is being implemented at warp speed.  I can't even begin to list the things it can do and is already doing.  Just like with each of the earlier disruptive changes this one will eliminate jobs and create others. It will make millions of people very rich.  Many will be left  behind because they fail to embrace the change.  I certainly can see which jobs are already on the chopping block.  I can also see applications that are going to make our lives so much better.  Don't fear it.  It is the future and we are already there.  You can make a fortune learning to implement and use these new tools. That's what they are.  Tools.  I am a skilled blacksmith. Can make tools with heat, a hammer and anvil.  But why?  CNC and Robotics does it so much better.  My days are over.  Today in my work I use AI almost EVERY DAY.  It is a wonderful device.  I am more efficient and effective because of it.

Conclusion:

You don't have to be first, you can be a slow adapter, but you do need to know there are  billions in fortunes ready to be made right NOW.  Just as there was after air travel replaced trains, the interstate opened up cities across the nation, the personal computer made the adding machine useless, the internet made data and information universally available, the smart phone opened communication to a whole new level and now with AI once more we are on the verge. 

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A Picture that the Facebook Community Standards people rejected

I posted this.  At once the community standards people told me it was hate speech and rebuked me severely.  

I put my picture here because it will post before the actual picture. Below. 

By the way taken in August of 2021.  No photoshop.

This is the picture they judged as hate.

Know Evil

CUBA 2023 - not what you have been told

Peggy and I just returned from Cuba.  We went because a friend of mine from Cuba encouraged it.  We used his friend Laura destination management company to line it all up.  It was easy, inexpensive and very safe.  We learned much about Cuba that we have been told in the USA that is simply not true. We had the best Guide Ever.  Renier.  I recommend him.

Do I embrace or support the Cuban government.  NO. But I support and want to help the people in Cuba. I did so under that travel auspices. As much as possible we with the help of our guide avoided as much as possible government restaurants, shops (there are few) or lodging places.

Here are some observations in no particular order.

Cuba is more beautiful and safe than I imagined. We have traveled much of the Caribbean and this is better

The people are wonderful and welcoming.  Many speak English, some in amazing ways. We met young men and women who were self taught and fluent.  It would have been better to be fluent in Spanish but not a problem really

The old Havana area with run down buildings is a single geography.  There are neighborhoods that have some of the most spectacular homes I have ever seen.   

As a fan of Cuban music I could not get enough.  But I listen all the time anyway.  In any case the music is great when it is fresh. We did hear some of the same tunes over and over again. 

It was cheap to travel there and everything we ate, drank or bought was cheap.  A bargain.

We ate at all kinds of restaurants and never had a bad meal.  Service was excellent at all times.  One place made us a pizza and it was superb.

The weather was in the 80s most days except the day we were scheduled to walk around Old Havana.  90s and hot.  Didn't rain much.

The Hemingway house was a highlight.  I thought it was really interesting.

If you go, be prepared to climb stairs. There are a lot of them.  

It was sad to see the vacant citrus fields where once there were millions of trees.  Citrus greening is also killing trees in Florida.  There are some newer cures for the bug that spreads the disease.  Perhaps the orchards will return. 

In the countryside everything was skinny, cats, dogs, horses and the people.  No obesity there.

The country is frozen in 1959 just like all the old cars.  There are over 50,000 still on the road.  all Pre 1959.  But they are gas guzzling pollution machines.  One day where we were the weather was just so that all the pollution from Havana came our way.  I could hardly breathe.  We were across the bay at the old fort and looking at Havana at night could see a plume of smog rising out of the city.  

The garbage problem is bad. Just piles and open fires. Just like 1960 in North Dakota.

Some things are in short supply. No supermarkets like in the USA.  Open air markets yes.  Gasoline is spotty for supply.  Long gas lines.  Some people wait all day for gas.  Electricity is unstable.  We had blackouts a couple times.  The internet which we did access was intermittent.  Didn't use the phone much with CUBACELL.  Could have with a plan from T-Mobile.  If We go back I will.

Men don't wear shorts, women wear dresses because it's cooler, but slacks and shorts for women are fine.  The women and the men are really really good looking. 

The Cuban people love their country.  Don't love the Russians.  Honor Castro brothers for what they did.  Are optimistic that things will open up.  The USA sanctions is encouraging more trade with China for basics.  Sanctions only hurt the USA. Medicine is hard to get. We aren't changing anyone's mind in Cuba.

They have a two party system just like in the USA we have the uniparty made up of Republicans and Democrats.  They have the Communist Party and the Communist party.  They don't have free and fair elections, and neither do we.

They did have a pretty tough secret police at one time, the G2.  Military Intelligence Service, or State Security. It is a very effective organization trained by the German Stassi and the Soviet KGB. My Cuban acquaintances say it is far less onerous than it was before the fall of the Soviet Union.  As in East Germany, citizens did spy on citizens.  There is far less than that now if any.  I saw very little military presence.  Some police but unarmed. No need to. People don't have guns.  Far less militaristic than most countries I have visited in Europe, like Italy.  The USA is more militaristic than Cuba, but with the thug mobs roaming the streets they have to be. 

The USA is becoming more restrictive and communistic than Cuba is and Cuba is getting freer. The people get the news and some I spoke with (remember they know English pretty well) said they see the trans, LBGT, Drag Shows, riots, corrupt cities and crime to the point that the only Cubans leaving are those desperate and poor or criminal. The estimate is the Island has lost 10,000 of its 11 Million residents in the last year.   The desire to come to the USA is much less than it used to be.

One dual citizenship Cuban American I met, Alan, has kids about to go to college.  He has seen what college in the USA does to destroy kids, he will not be sending those kids to the USA to college.  The Cuban people see the USA going down the drain.   Besides education and literacy in Cuba is better than most of Urban America.

They liked Obama because he opened things up and made it better for Cubans.  But I met many who liked Trump and thought he was a good president, for the USA.  Not so much for the Cubans.

I paid in dollars.  It was just reversed the day before I got there that you could take dollars.  I was loaded up with Euros.

It was easy to go, clearing customs and passport control.  Hard to come back. TSA is a curse.  Passport control took twice as long coming back as going.  Over an hour of standing in line.

Because I got to spend time with Cubans with no agenda, and they loved speaking English with me, I found that they love Americans but don't want too many of us there.  The term they use for Tourists and in particularly Americans is A NECESSARY EVIL.  Sure we bring money, but some don't know how to behave.  I met Germans, Russians, French, Tunisian, British, and Canadian Tourists.  Well behaved.  If Cuba opens up wide to Americans I fear for the purity of the county.

Wandering around there were a few beggars.  Not as many as Chicago. We were warned there might be pickpockets, But not that many, cause I didn't hear of any from anyone I met.

 Last the palate of Music.  There  are more songs than the dozen of so that we heard over and over again.  

All in all, a wonderful vacation. 

GO

Pictures can be seen here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding the Midterms and the Future of the Political Landscape

 

 

The electorate is more divided today than it has ever been.  Here’s the breakdown:

 On the Right there is the MAGA branch of the Republican Party.  They are about 30% of the electorate.

 On the Left there is the radical Left Progressives (AOC Types).  They are also about 30% of the electorate. 

 The Republican Party cannot offend or disregard the Maga branch just as the Democrat Party cannot offend or disregard the Progressive Left.  They cannot win elections of they do offend these core groups.  The middle of the road, less Maga or less progressive people, in both parties are in the minority.  They NEED these radicals left or right.

If either party offends the radical core group, they will cause a rift that will result in a weak third party. Think the greens or the libertarian.  They are constant spoilers.  Look at the Georgia Senate race.  The libertarian vote would have put Walker in office.

 Right now the mainstream Republicans (the 20%) are upset with Trump.  There are calls from every side to ask him to go away.  The problem is that he is still the most popular republican in America.  If he were to defer it would open the door to several better options. 

 But here’s the bitter truth.  IF he decides to run again, he will get the nomination and he will win the presidency.  The maga group outvotes the 20%.  The 20% will HAVE to  vote for Trump in order to avoid a democrat win.   There is no other choice. A direct confrontation from Youngkin or Desantis would divide the party and guarantee that whoever the democrats nominate will win.  The stay at home or vote for a third party by the Maga group will kill any chance.

My desire to see a change because I see myself as more in the 20%  doesn’t matter.  If we don’t want a permanent democrat majority, we have to pray that Trump sees the light and steps aside.  I don’t think he will and it is going to be catastrophic. 

 The division is deep but the 20% is trapped. 

 The same by the way on the other team, but I don’t care about that.  If the democrats were to run a Josh Shapiro of PA, Phil Murphy of NJ or Roy Cooper of North Carolina they would win in a landslide against anyone other than Trump.  But the progressives wouldn't be happy.

 So as much as I hate reality, there it is.

 

 

 

 

 

Things I Have Learned from the Most Successful People I Know

I have been fortunate in my life to have learned from some of the most successful people in business on the planet.  I write down little things they say and the way they act.  This is a compilation of 17 truths I have recorded over the years.  It's a great reminder or maybe a new thought.

1.  You must be in a business you know and understand.  Most people fail in business because they don’t actually know what they are doing.  It’s why franchises exist.  To help people who know nothing about what they are about to do, succeed with proper support.  People fail in business because they don’t know what they are doing and they are just in business to make money.  That is the worst possible motivation. 

2.  You MUST love what you do.  If you don’t love it, you will stop doing it. 

3.  Never ever give up.  Keep on. Don’t quit when it gets hard.  When life knocks you down, get up and keep going.  Don’t ever blame others for your situation.  It mutes the drive of your recovery. 

4.  Stay focused on the task at hand.  Don’t let distractions, those bright shiny things, squirrels and endless bunny trails take you off the path to success.  Diversions are not just costly, they are deadly.  Stick to your knitting.

5.  Be a little paranoid.  There are people are just plain bad for you and some are trying to hurt you.  Measure twice and cut once.  Trust but verify. 

6.  Being nice isn’t always a virtue. Kindness is.  Cruel to be kind isn’t just a song.

7.  Be a contrarian to go against the tide ONLY if you know you have the ability to follow it through. 

8.  Trust your gut instincts IF you have the ability to follow thru to success.

9.  Not everyone is cut out to do what others do.  Never imitate.  There is only one Elon Musk.  You are you, be that.  Some are not emotionally equipped to be in business for themselves.  Know yourself, be yourself.

10.  Know your capacity for risk taking.  If you aren’t wired for risk, don’t take it.  If you can’t sleep at night because of the risks you have to take to be in business for yourself, you shouldn’t take the risk.  Business is too much fun to make people miserable.

11.  Sometimes the most intelligent people have the most difficulty in business.  The constant risk reward calculation causes them to stumble.  They are always coming up with ways to avoid the risks or trying to increase the reward.  It’s a vicious cycle.  Being smart or well educated does not automatically make people a success in business for themselves.  Success in business has more to do with your emotional makeup than your intelligence.

12.  Get the very best people you can find to help you succeed.  Be careful NOT to trust them with your success.  You need to stay involved.  They must respect the vision (and you).  Tell the truth to yourself and to others about where you are headed.  If they are constantly pushing back, sometimes goodbye is a better strategy.

13.   Don’t let people step on you.  If you demonstrate toughness and cleverness they will be less likely to try to take advantage of you.  Don’t ever let people get away with taking advantage of you.  Push back when they do.

14.  There is such a thing as luck.  Good Fortune.  Grace.  Some people seem to just be more fortunate.  Why? What helps swing fortune your way is optimism.  The world is a discouraging place.  Believe it can be done.  Nothing can happen unless you try something.  If it fails, move on.  The harder you work, the luckier you will be.  You can’t win unless you are in the game.  Too many people go thru the motions in business as a spectator; Letting circumstance dictate their destiny.  You can’t celebrate victory unless you are on the playing field.

15.  Some people say they want to win, but secretly want to lose.  It is easier to say, “I tried” and fail than to succeed.  Success scares many people.  Get over your fear of success.  You deserve to win. 

16.  If you get into a business arrangement, partnership, corporation or joint venture as a business deal and it starts to go south, nothing you thought you understood or agreed to matters except what is on paper.  When it comes to conflicts, particularly in court, only what is written down matters.  He with the best documentation wins. A verbal agreement, even between good people, is not worth the paper it is written on.   I have learned this painful truth too many times.

17.  Think bigger.  If you play with pennies you win pennies.  If you play with dollars you win dollars, if you play with hundreds, you win hundreds.  Do fewer small deals.  They take just as much time and effort as the big ones.  Focus on the big deals.  There is the 10-10 rule.  IF a prospect can’t make a ten thousand dollar decision in ten minutes, move on.  It’s OK to do little deals if you have a system.  Just don’t do it yourself.  A $20,000 deal takes the same amount of time and effort as a $2000 deal.  You only have so much time and energy.

Music and Worship, a history

 At my age I have experienced a lot of music.  Sang in countless choirs, numerous bands, many small groups  and a few “Rock” bands.  As a music lover there is little I don’t appreciate when it is done well.  Done badly, it is seriously bad.

Growing up I was exposed to Hymns in Church and Classical in Grade School.  I don’t know who she was but she came and introduced us to all forms of great music.

I also early on was exposed to opera.  A friend pursued an opera career.  It is hard. It’s  like  baseball.. only a few make it.

In spite of the fact that I have played and sang in many ensembles of all sizes.. I was never good at leading.  Just didn’t  have the pipes.  Could harmonize.. but that’s about it.

In college I was introduced to Gospel  quartet music.  Different from the Hymns of Mo Synod Lutheran.  Oh they could touch me, but when I started to listen to Blackwood Brothers and Kingsmen (Think Gaither Music) I entered a new realm of appreciation. I wasn’t serving God, but I did like the music.  Still do.. but more on that later.

About the time I got serious about serving God Keith Green was big.  Really Big.  I knew and learned many of his songs.  Second Chapter of Acts, Matthew Ward. Those late 70s and early 80s folks.   Then I started attending First Assembly in Fargo.  The music was fabulous.  I learned to worship.   I exalt thee.  From the rising of the sun.  Great is your faithfulness… All the choruses.  We sang them together.  They rang out.  Bruce and Nate made it work.

Then we moved to Chicagoland.. and Calvary Temple.  Music just as great.. but a larger venue.  A bit more performance oriented except on Wednesday night when Pastor Schmidgall would sit on a chair all by himself on the platform and intone with all of us following, “we worship and adore thee.. bowing down before thee”.  The prophecies, the tongues and interpretations and many other wonderful things happened.

Then over time we left Calvary to help plant a church in Geneva.  Tim Campbell.  And Pam.  The music was rusty but effective.  Still small form.  However there is where a shift began. The music in churches began to drift from congregational worship to something else.  I played in the band.  Charley.  Pam.  Me.  Et al.  She had talent. I had little.  But she made me look better than I was.

At the same time I was introduced to and began to incorporate in my worship canon music from the House of Prayer in Kansas City. There were many skilled musicians that came out of that movement including Misty Edwards.  They knew how to write and sing material that touched the heart. Lots of spontaneous worship.  I had experienced it before in Tulsa at higher praise (Carlton Pearson).  I asked someone (a predominantly black congregation) where the words were. Nothing on a screen. No hand outs.  Just spontaneous.  He smiled and said, you’ll  figure it out. Follow along.  I did and I did.  I was hooked on spontaneous. 

Then living where we did we attended Faith Center in Rockford for a long  time.   Loved the worship there.  Brad.  Corey.  The whole thing.  Some worship nights were electric. 

One night a guest spoke.  Apostle John Eckhardt. 2007. He spoke in ways I did not understand but wanted to.  The Spirit of God said to me, “He is your next level, Go there”.  I Did.

So at that time I was busy.  Still involved sometimes even playing at the House of Prayer in Bolingbrook.  And Crusaders.  I began attending Crusaders Church in downtown Chicago.  Still attending locally Sunday’s but feeding off the presence of God there.  I was one of only a few white folks.  Yet the worship was not “Black”. It was spontaneous,  mostly led by Kathy Summers.  She brought more anointing to the platform and more congregational involvement than I had seen before. 

The Sunday Morning worship was drifting into performance.  We were attending Restore Church in Yorkville.  Great worship.. but lights down.  You couldn’t see if anyone was there except on the platform.  If people sang along.. you didn’t know.  No utterance in tongues, no prophetic.  Just 3 or four songs before pastor spoke. 

This is now the pattern in most of the churches you will find today.  Worship is a stage show, smoke, lights and a great sound system.  Skilled musicians sing songs, words are on a screen, singing along is optional.. and seldom.

And the music.. much of it is no longer worshipful.. good  words, great sentiments, but impact is less.  I do enjoy watching the Ron Carpenter Redemption service on TV early in the morning on Sunday’s.  While the theatrics are sometimes over the top ..it is real  enough and people are worshiping and you can see them.   They leave a light on for you.  Once in a while a song or verse of a song touches me. Seldom.. but when it does it is good.

I do find my self of late drifting back to familiar places.  Southern Gospel and even Quartets.  Funny I couldn’t be less southern if you painted me with fried green tomatoes juice.  Yet the music I hear for instance as I often do on line from 91.7 Hannibal MO the CROSS radio is so rich.  I find myself caught up.  I find catch lines that I ponder for a long time.  One song, “Grace ain’t Fair” was humbling as I pondered it.

I long for better worship.  Soul stirring.  It doesn’t have to be slow and sad, it can be an anthem of victory.  After all, that is what the Gospel is.  Yes it is the good news of Jesus died, rose again and paid for all our sins.  But equally as effective are the stories we tell of the Victorious Battles we have fought in his name and the reports in our testimony.  That is an even more powerful gospel.   When people see what has happened to us in our lives that makes all the difference.  That is good news.

To be clear my tastes are still eclectic in what I enjoy. Opera, Classical, Cuban, Some old Rock from my long ago.  Rap?  Nope.  Most pop music?  Nope (Ed Sheeran might be an exception). Excellence is the key. Mediocre isn’t. 

Maybe we can be like Willie and Waylon and get back to the basics of love.  Pastor Eddie Wilson keeps posting remembrances of the early days.. I long for those.  I believe a great awakening is coming and the music we hear on K-Love that was good for a season will be replaced with music from the heart of victory.   There are a few places you find some now an again.. but most is not it.  I know when there is an anointing and I know when there is NOT.  When it becomes performance.. I tune out. In fact it offends me if someone is affecting something they don’t have trying to lead worship.  You can’t impart what you don’t possess.

Don’t write me off as a grumpy old man.. I do qualify, I just want something that fans the fire in my heart… and I want to worship WITH .. not worshiped to.

 

 

If you are double vaccinated you can still get covid

 But if you are unvaccinated, and you get covid.. you have a higher risk of dying.  More people who are fully vaccinated get covid than those who are unvacinated.  Here is the data..

Study as of last week in the UK

A recent study says the fatter you are the more you are likely to die from Covid 19

Most coronavirus deaths have occurred in countries where majority of adults are overweight

 

 Here's the list and it holds

Country
                                         
                      Obesity Rate     BMI         Population 2021
American Samoa    74.60%    34.9    55,100
Tokelau    74.40%        1,373
Nauru    61.00%    32.5    10,876
Cook Islands    55.90%    33    17,565
Palau    55.30%    29.4    18,169
Marshall Islands    52.90%    29.2    59,610
Tuvalu    51.60%    29.3    11,931
Niue    50.00%        1,619
Tonga    48.20%    31.9    106,760
Samoa    47.30%    31.7    200,149
Kiribati    46.00%    29.6    121,392
Micronesia    45.80%    29.4    116,254
Aruba    38.20%        107,204
Kuwait    37.90%    30    4,328,550
Cayman Islands    36.60%        66,497
United States    36.20%    28.8    332,915,073
British Virgin Islands    35.50%        30,421
Jordan    35.50%    28.9    10,269,021
Saudi Arabia    35.40%    28.5    35,340,683
Qatar    35.10%    29.2    2,930,528
Bermuda    34.40%        62,090
Guam    34.30%        170,179
French Polynesia    33.10%        282,530
Curacao    33.00%        164,798
Puerto Rico    32.90%        2,828,255
United States Virgin Islands    32.50%        104,226
Libya    32.50%    27.7    6,958,532
Turkey    32.10%    27.8    85,042,738
Lebanon    32.00%    27.8    6,769,146
Egypt    32.00%    29.2    104,258,327
United Arab Emirates    31.70%    28.8    9,991,089
Bahamas    31.60%    28.4    396,913
New Caledonia    31.50%        288,218
New Zealand    30.80%    27.9    4,860,643
Iraq    30.40%    28    41,179,350
Fiji    30.20%    27.2    902,906
Macau    30.00%        658,394
Hong Kong    29.90%        7,552,810
Bahrain    29.80%    28.2    1,748,296
Canada    29.40%    27.2    38,067,903
Northern Mariana Islands    29.20%        57,917
Australia    29.00%    27.2    25,788,215
Malta    28.90%    27.2    442,784
Mexico    28.90%    28.1    130,262,216
Argentina    28.30%    27.7    45,605,826
South Africa    28.30%    27.3    60,041,994
Chile    28.00%    27.8    19,212,361
Dominica    27.90%    27    72,167
Uruguay    27.90%    26.8    3,485,151
Syria    27.80%    28.1    18,275,702
United Kingdom    27.80%    27.3    68,207,116
Dominican Republic    27.60%    26.7    10,953,703
Algeria    27.40%    26.2    44,616,624
Oman    27.00%    26.9    5,223,375
Tunisia    26.90%    26.8    11,935,766
Palestine    26.80%    27.6    5,222,748
Suriname    26.40%    27.4    591,800
Hungary    26.40%    26.3    9,634,164
Lithuania    26.30%    26.6    2,689,862
Israel    26.10%    26.3    8,789,774
Morocco    26.10%    25.6    37,344,795
Czech Republic    26.00%    26.9    10,724,555
Iran    25.80%    26.2    85,028,759
Costa Rica    25.70%    26.9    5,139,052
Andorra    25.60%    27.5    77,355
Venezuela    25.60%    27.2    28,704,954
Ireland    25.30%    27.5    4,982,907
Vanuatu    25.20%    26.2    314,464
Bulgaria    25.00%    26    6,896,663
Greece    24.90%    27.3    10,370,744
Jamaica    24.70%    27.4    2,973,463
El Salvador    24.60%    27.4    6,518,499
Cuba    24.60%    26.2    11,317,505
Belarus    24.50%    26.6    9,442,862
Croatia    24.40%    25.5    4,081,651
Belize    24.10%    28.9    404,914
Ukraine    24.10%    26    43,466,819
Gibraltar    24.00%    27.5    33,698
Spain    23.80%    26.7    46,745,216
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines    23.70%    27.3    111,263
Nicaragua    23.70%    26.9    6,702,385
Latvia    23.60%    25.8    1,866,942
Montenegro    23.30%    26    628,053
Barbados    23.10%    28.7    287,711
Norway    23.10%    26    5,465,630
Poland    23.10%    26.4    37,797,005
Russia    23.10%    26.5    145,912,025
Saint Kitts And Nevis    22.90%    29.7    53,544
Guadeloupe    22.90%        400,020
Panama    22.70%    27.1    4,381,579
Haiti    22.70%    24.1    11,541,685
Luxembourg    22.60%    26.5    634,814
Solomon Islands    22.50%    25.5    703,996
Romania    22.50%    25.3    19,127,774
Macedonia    22.40%    25.8    2,082,658
Colombia    22.30%    25.9    51,265,844
Germany    22.30%    26.3    83,900,473
Finland    22.20%    25.9    5,548,360
Belgium    22.10%    25.5    11,632,326
Brazil    22.10%    25.9    213,993,437
Greenland    22.00%        56,877
Taiwan    22.00%    24    23,855,010
Iceland    21.90%    25.9    343,353
Cyprus    21.80%    27    1,215,584
Albania    21.70%    26.1    2,872,933
Georgia    21.70%    27.2    3,979,765
France    21.60%    25.3    65,426,179
Serbia    21.50%    25.8    8,697,550
Honduras    21.40%    26.4    10,062,991
Grenada    21.30%    27    113,021
Papua New Guinea    21.30%    25.3    9,119,010
Estonia    21.20%    25.5    1,325,185
Guatemala    21.20%    26.5    18,249,860
Kazakhstan    21.00%    27.4    18,994,962
Portugal    20.80%    26.2    10,167,925
Mongolia    20.60%    26    3,329,289
Sweden    20.60%    25.8    10,160,169
Slovakia    20.50%    26.5    5,460,721
Netherlands    20.40%    25.4    17,173,099
Paraguay    20.30%    25.8    7,219,638
Guyana    20.20%    26.3    790,326
Slovenia    20.20%    26.9    2,078,724
Armenia    20.20%    26.7    2,968,127
Bolivia    20.20%    25.9    11,832,940
Austria    20.10%    25.4    9,043,070
Isle Of Man    20.00%        85,410
Azerbaijan    19.90%    27.4    10,223,342
Ecuador    19.90%    27    17,888,475
Italy    19.90%    26    60,367,477
Saint Lucia    19.70%    29.6    184,400
Denmark    19.70%    25.3    5,813,298
Peru    19.70%    26.3    33,359,418
Switzerland    19.50%    25.3    8,715,494
Antigua And Barbuda    18.90%    28.1    98,731
Botswana    18.90%    24.7    2,397,241
Moldova    18.90%    26.7    4,024,019
Trinidad And Tobago    18.60%    28.7    1,403,375
Turkmenistan    18.60%    26.4    6,117,924
French Guiana    17.90%        306,448
Bosnia And Herzegovina    17.90%    26.1    3,263,466
Namibia    17.20%    24.3    2,587,344
Yemen    17.10%    25.8    30,490,640
Lesotho    16.60%    24.9    2,159,079
Kyrgyzstan    16.60%    26.2    6,628,356
Uzbekistan    16.60%    26.1    33,935,763
Malaysia    15.60%    25.3    32,776,194
Zimbabwe    15.50%    23.4    15,092,171
Gabon    15.00%    25.5    2,278,825
Swaziland    14.80%        1,172,362
Tajikistan    14.20%    25.4    9,749,627
Brunei    14.10%    26.2    441,532
Seychelles    14.00%    26.8    98,908
Djibouti    13.50%    23.3    1,002,187
Mauritania    12.70%    24.8    4,775,119
Sao Tome And Principe    12.40%    24.8    223,368
Cape Verde    11.80%    24.7    561,898
Cameroon    11.40%    24.4    27,224,265
Ghana    10.90%    24.2    31,732,129
Mauritius    10.80%    25.6    1,273,433
Gambia    10.30%    24    2,486,945
Ivory Coast    10.30%    23.6    27,053,629
Thailand    10.00%    24.1    69,950,850
Liberia    9.90%    24    5,180,203
Republic Of The Congo    9.60%    23.3    5,657,013
Benin    9.60%    23.4    12,451,040
Guinea Bissau    9.50%    23.1    2,015,494
Nigeria    8.90%    23.4    211,400,708
Senegal    8.80%    23    17,196,301
Sierra Leone    8.70%    22.8    8,141,343
Maldives    8.60%    25.1    543,617
Mali    8.60%    22.8    20,855,735
Pakistan    8.60%    23.8    225,199,937
Togo    8.40%    23.2    8,478,250
Tanzania    8.40%    23.1    61,498,437
Somalia    8.30%    21.9    16,359,504
Angola    8.20%    24.1    33,933,610
Zambia    8.10%    22.6    18,920,651
Equatorial Guinea    8.00%    25.6    1,449,896
Comoros    7.80%    24.1    888,451
Guinea    7.70%    22.7    13,497,244
Central African Republic    7.50%    22.4    4,919,981
Martinique    7.20%        374,745
Mozambique    7.20%    22.3    32,163,047
Kenya    7.10%    23    54,985,698
Indonesia    6.90%    22.9    276,361,783
North Korea    6.80%    21.8    25,887,041
Dr Congo    6.70%    22.2    92,377,993
South Sudan    6.60%    25.2    11,381,378
Sudan    6.60%    25.2    44,909,353
Bhutan    6.40%    23.8    779,898
Philippines    6.40%    23.2    111,046,913
China    6.20%    23.9    1,444,216,107
Singapore    6.10%    23.7    5,896,686
Chad    6.10%    22.3    16,914,985
Rwanda    5.80%    22    13,276,513
Malawi    5.80%    22.8    19,647,684
Myanmar    5.80%    22.6    54,806,012
Burkina Faso    5.60%    22.1    21,497,096
Niger    5.50%    21.7    25,130,817
Afghanistan    5.50%    21.6    39,835,428
Burundi    5.40%    20.9    12,255,433
Laos    5.30%    22.6    7,379,358
Madagascar    5.30%    21.1    28,427,328
Uganda    5.30%    22    47,123,531
Sri Lanka    5.20%    23    21,497,310
Eritrea    5.00%    20.5    3,601,467
South Korea    4.70%    23.9    51,305,186
Ethiopia    4.50%    20.6    117,876,227
Japan    4.30%    22.6    126,050,804
Nepal    4.10%    22.2    29,674,920
Cambodia    3.90%    21.9    16,946,438
India    3.90%    21.9    1,393,409,038
Timor Leste    3.80%    21.2    1,343,873
Bangladesh    3.60%    21    166,303,498
Vietnam    2.10%    21.6    98,168,833

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