What does the situation look like to you? You are guided by the figures to obvious visual correlations. Do high birth rates mean repeating civil wars just as hunger dictates military repression or revolution? Note the effects of quite extraneous factors from AIDS to hurricanes like Mitch & Jeannie. Haiti & Guatemala, others are at the breaking point.

CIVIL STRIFE in Haiti, Guatemala and others like Nicaragua are constants, because the birth rates cannot match their eroded food supplies, aside from many inequalities. Mexico is only a part of a larger mesoamerican poverty center that is a home for revolution.

1/ Mexico, 2/ Panama, 3/ Antigua & Barbudos, 4/ Chile, 5/ Peru, 6/ Colombia, 7/ Ecuador, 8/ Dominican Republic, 9/ Nicaragua, 10/ French Guinea, 11/ Guayana, 12/ Bolivia, 13/ El Salvador, 14/ Belize, 15/ Honduras, 16/ Paraguay, 17/ Guatemala and 18/ Haiti.

GDP2 is GDP/1000 and TFR2 is 10TFR. The extraordinary sorrow of Nicaragua (9) draws your attention.