Cambodia's facts
- Population: 14,241,640
- o 61% of the rural population doesn't complete primary school
o 56% of primary school entrants reach grade 5 (2000-2006)
o 30% of pupils drop out from school between grades 1 and 2 (2006)
o Functionally literate people make up 37% of Cambodia's adult population
o About 42% of Cambodian women and 21% of men above the age of 15 have never attended school
o 34% of population lives with an income below US $1 a day (1995-2005)
o Rural households account for nearly 90% of Cambodia’s poor.
o Human trafficking is a major problem in Cambodia and many of the women who end up as prostitutes are illiterate girls from rural families.
Population pyramid
This is the population pyramid of cambodia which shows us that the birth rate is high and the death rate is low so we reach the conclusion that Cambodia is an LIC but in the future the economically active will get higher and the economy will get better and the currency will increase.
The sad war history
But sadly, with all the beauty that Cambodia has captured throughout time, at one point in its history, darkness devoured this fragile nation. Once ruled by the French as part of French Indochina, Cambodian gained independence from European colonization at a price. Years of civil war, turmoil, and political corruption followed as Cambodia began governing itself. With bordering Vietnam at war with the United States, Cambodia was also slowly dragged into darkness when the Nixon administration conducted secret bombings of Cambodia during the early 1970s. This led to the rise of communist leader Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge entourage, who brought the country into the darkest days of its history. From 1975-1979, Cambodia turned into the infamous "Killing Fields" where nearly two million of Cambodia's six million population were killed.