Human Tide by Paul Morland

"The Human Tide, How Population Shaped the Modern World" by Paul Morland: the Intro and Chapter 2, The Weight of Numbers, are on Google preview pages - around 50 pages in all.

It is my book group's current choice and I am not impressed. As I wrote on Goodreads:

There is a basic error in the intro, which says “There is now no territory outside Africa with a life expectancy below sixty”, but cia-world-factbook says life expectancy in Afghanistan is 52.

If Morland can get basics like this wrong, how can one trust such unsupported generalisations as how he explains the difference in violence between Switzerland and Yemen? Morland says it is due to their populations having average ages that are respectively older and younger, with Switzerland’s being 40-plus and Yemen’s being under 20. Surely the ghastly, one-sided war being waged on Yemen by Saudi Arabia has something to do with with the violence in Yemen?

On demography and population stats, I prefer the late Swedish statistician, Hans Rosling.

Another book on demography and population stats that has been recommended to me is "Population 10 Billion" by Danny Dorling, reviewed here in The Guardian.