Zambia

There is never not enough time.
You just suck at being honest about how you use it.
(7-26-06)

So, I just thought I would point out that the total average life expectancy at birth in Zambia is 39.1 years. (For women, it is 38.6 years.) In addition, the total fertility rate is 5.18 children per woman (not including unsuccessful pregnancies). As of 1998, 63.7% of the population live beneath $1/day, on the international dollar.

However, these people, like you and I, will also be judged by God.

Obviously, God is The Just, so if a Zambian's condition in the Lower World is demonstrably different, would not his judgement likely differ from that of someone who is answerable within a different set of realities?

I think it is easy to believe we are doing the best we can, but it's probably just not true. But I can only speak for myself.

"Then, you will certainly be asked, on that day, regarding an-na'eem."

Sources: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision, http://esa.un.org/unpp, 16 August 2006; 9:59:20 AM. Development Research Group of the World Bank Group, 2005 World Development Indicators, http://devdata.worldbank.org/wdipdfs/table2_5.pdf. The Qur'an 102:8