Why Africa so poor? Annual income of $300 to $1000 a year. why is africa poorest place on earth?

The fact than Afghanistan, Burma, and Haiti are also on the list should give you a clue, the poorest counties are usually having of have had a civil war and or a dysfunctional government Africa also has high birth rates so the population increases faster than the economy grows and the people suffer from tropical decease which debilitates the workforce. Most countries in Asia were as poor as Africa until after WWII and a large part of the reason they are pulling ahead in GDP per capita is because they reduced their birth rate, but the majority of the people who live in abject poverty still live in Asia. a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=sp_pop_grow&hl=en&dl=en_US#ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=sp_pop_grow&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:IND:KEN&tdim=true&hl=en&dl=en_US" rel="nofollow"http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore…/a