Some facts aren't easy to swallow. Given that:
- land area (http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+germany+size)
Kenya - 224 962 mi^2 (square miles)
Germany - 137 847 mi^2 (square miles)
Now consider these facts:
- road length (http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+germany+road)
Kenya paved road length - 8933 km (kilometers)
Germany road length - 644 480 km (kilometers)
- railway length (http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+germany+rail)
Kenya - 1726 miles
Germany - 29 959 miles
- GDP (http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+germany+gdp)
Kenya - $29.51 billion per year (US dollars per year)
Germany - $3.317 trillion per year (US dollars per year)
Germany's GDP is approximately 11 THOUSAND PERCENT larger than Kenya's
(according to WolframAlpha.com)
- literacy rates aren't spectacularly dissimilar
(http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+germany+literacy)
Kenya - 85.1%
Germany - 99%
So what's the problem?
Perhaps literacy rates aren't correlated much with GDP (check out the
scatter-plot at
http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=literacy+vs.+gdp), whereas road
and rail networks seem to be much more correlated to GDP
(scatter-plots at http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=roads+vs.+gdp
and http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=railway+vs.+gdp
respectively)
- More general stats at
http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+germany
On a "brighter" note: at least we're marginally better than Madagascar
(http://www67.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+vs.+madagascar)
Saidi
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