Population: 3,092,000
GDP/capita: $11,304.57
Life expectancy: (male and female): 62.1037521
Male
life expectancy at birth: 65.9 years.
Female
life expectancy at birth: 70.9 years
Fertility: 2.69 children
per woman
Demographic Stage: Mongolia is transitioning from stage 2 to
stage 3. Transition into modern industry and democratic government, as well as
death and infant mortality rate falling, indicate that the country is
transitioning to or reached stage 3.
Happiness Ranking and
Change in Happiness: 95th and 5.125 from 2015-2017 Change in
happiness from 2008 to 2010 is .58
Reasons for the current and
change in happiness: Transition to a democratic government has given unprecedented
freedom of religion and travel for its citizens as well as making it very
attractive to foreigners. Also included in increasing the happiness is higher
life expectancy and lower infertility rate. Religion and sunshine also may attribute
to increased happiness.
Extreme winter conditions on
the Mongolian steppe caused extensive die-offs in sheep, goats, cattle, and
camels, animals that herding communities rely on for survival.
Ongoing drought made the
nomads’ livestock face a lack of adequate forage on the grasslands along the
Russian border, which made the livestock go into the winter season much thinner
than usual. The weather has been more than ten degrees below average, making
700,000 animals perish.
Severe winters killing
large amounts of livestock are common enough, but it is occurring more
frequently in recent years and is getting worse. Scientists have shown that a
warming Arctic is making US winters worse.) It’s hard to pin point the
conditions that are giving rise to the disaster, so finding solutions is
complicated.
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