The first CIA Investigation

Today in class we continued our migration and settlement PowerPoint and explored the CIA website. We only went through one slide, and it was about TFR (Total Fertilization Rate). TFR is made up of the average number of children born for each woman. For the population to remain the same in an area the TFR must remain at 2.1. Any higher, and the population goes up, and lower and the population drops. The current world TFR is 2.42. Therefore, the world’s population is growing. As noted before, the undeveloped countries tend to have a higher population growth, which means they have a higher TFR. After that we visited the CIA website. CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency, and the CIA has a lot of information about every country on the planet. We explored individual countries specific statistics, but it appears that the CIA has info about a wide variety of subjects for each country. A brief list would include population, religion, and the economy, along with other categories.