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Demographics Part 10: Problems in the Middle East || Peter Zeihan

The Peter Zeihan Podcast Series

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The Impact of Oil on the Population of the World

Population matrix and we're bad All right So what this means is the countries have had it all these places have a nutritional pyramid going back to antiquity And then as we hit industrialization because of oil and the food just kept coming They were able to maintain very high birth rates. Now even if anything impacts their ability to export their non Staple food products and import wheat you get a population crash that'll probably be worst in places like Libya where food production has maybe double since 1945 but the population has increased by a factor of seven or eight.

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