With 250-350K estimates at independence population density will be 23-32
people/sq. km.

Just imagine the current ratio of 125 people sharing 1sq. Km for
livelihoods - housing, farming, livestock rearing, roads/access paths,
mosques, churches, schools, etc.

Is that enough a room?

We have serious works to do - let's start!

Burama


On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Estimates has it that at the dawn of independence we were less than 1/2
> million people. Today extrapolated estimates put us at 1.7million people.
> Estimated average density of about 125 people/km
>
> Area - about 11K sq. km
> Water surface - 1300 sq. km
> Rainfall - about 800-1000mm
>
> Human capital - high school? Undergraduate? Graduate?
>
> Foreign financial/cash aid ?
> Foreign food aid ?
> Foreign developmental aid including NGOs ?
>
> Forest cover - 4800sq.km this includes shrub and savanahs in 2010.
> Substantially more even in late 70s. Still waiting for someone at the Dept.
> on the earlier numbers. 66 national parks with 34000ha
>
> Agricultural land - 6650sq. Km
>
> Notice that there are overlaps in the area estimates water + forests +
> agriculture leaves nothing for settlements. That's understandable from
> classification but settlement areas is a significant land use that should
> stand alone.
>
> Estimates indicates 55% of all Gambians live in the urban area. If urban
> area is GBA which excludes Brikama we are in serious trouble. Regardless we
> are already in serious trouble. The answers are in the health statistics -
>  WHO estimates of 2010.
>
> Economic data / formal and informal sector.
> Government formed the bigger chunk of the formal. Bad record keep if any.
> How is the informal sector captured is everyone's imagination - tailors,
> carpenters, cottage industries, agriculture, etc.
>
> Social statistic - population, birth, dead, vehicles, passports, ID, etc.
>
> How are decisions made? Have you ever listen to the famous finance
> minister budget speeches with impressive numbers of growth? I would
> estimate an average of 3% growth since I started following. How then are we
> so poor? Why then the economy essential excludes larger portion of our
> people? You can ask 1 million questions!
>
> Can we manage a nation democratically without fact based information?
> Imagine if you remove a registration place from a 2014 white T/Corolla and
> place on another of the same specifications. How can we tell which one it
> belongs? How many of us has multi passports or IDs without any reference to
> the earlier issues? The same is true for birth records. No record of dead
> as far as I know.
>
> We have a systemic problem and not a person problem. It can only be fix by
> cultural reorientation and not simply reshuffling the deck of cards.
>
> Are we after all POOR or Poorly MANAGED?
>
> I simply have an idea on the how.
>
> Regards
>
> Burama
>


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