Mia Mottley
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Guyana is- Guyana is?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because of the oil.
Okay, okay, got it.
But Guyana's population-
in spite of it being the same size as the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom is 65 million, Ghana is struggling to be a million.
Let's go to Belize.
Belize is the same size as Israel.
Israel is 8 million, Belize is 400 and something thousand.
Suriname is just larger than the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is 17 million, Suriname is 580,000.
And if I take Barbados, Singapore grew itself literally by reclamation of land.
I think they've gone up by 30 or 40%.
They're more or less a little bigger than Barbados.
They're 5 million.
I'm struggling to be at 300,000.
So you have this predicament that other than Haiti,
Almost every country in the Caribbean community is underpopulated, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, all of us.
Do you think it's because people are able to choose to have kids or is it because people are choosing to have fewer kids as their standard of living goes up?