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Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
The most underrated factor
Source: Tomas Pueyo for Uncharted Territories, with data from The world by latitudes: A global analysis of human population, development level and environment across the north–south axis over the past half century, Kummu & Varis, 2010 Singapore (SGP) and Hong Kong (HKG) have tons of air conditioning, GNQ (Equatorial Guinea) has plenty of oil, Seychelles (SYC), Barbados (BRB), the UAE (ARE), Puerto Rico (PRI) are all microstates too... But as we saw in Climate Caused the US Civil War, warmth also reduces health directly, because diseases like malaria, dengue, yellow fever, tuberculosis, or parasitic worms are endemic in these regions: They thrive in warm, humid environments.
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