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Thursday, 13 June 2013

Hans Rosling on religion and fertility

Demography.matters.blog has a link to a very entertaining talk by Hans Rosling on the aggregate level relationship between religion and fertility. This guy can make numbers really interesting!
Posted by Colin at 08:01

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