Developed and Developing Countries

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Developed and Developing Countries

• VA SOL objective WG.8 The student will
  distinguish between developed and developing
  countries and relate the level of economic
  development to the standard of living and quality
  of life

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Essential Understanding 1

• Levels of economic development vary from country
  to country and from place to place within
  countries

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Essential Understanding 2

• Resources and technology influence
• economic development and quality of
• life

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Differences between developed and developing
countries

• 1) Access to natural resources
• 2) Access to capital resources

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• 3) Numbers and skills of human resources
• 4) Levels of economic development

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• 5) Standards of living and quality of life
• 6) Relationships between economic development and
  quality of life

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Indicators of economic development

• 1) Urban/rural ratio

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• 2) Labor force characteristics
• - Primary sector
• - Secondary sector
• - Tertiary sector

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• 3) GDP per capita
• GDP Gross Domestic Product
• The total market value of all final goods and
  services produced in a country in a given year,
• Per capita per person

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• 4) Educational achievement

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Indicators of standards of living and quality of
life

• 1) Population growth rate (natural increase)
• Highest United Arab Emirates
• Lowest Cook Islands
• 2) Population age distribution

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• 3) Literacy rate

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• 4) Life expectancy
• Highest Macau (84.36 years)
• Lowest Swaziland (31.88 years)
• United States 78.11 years
• 5) Infant mortality
• Highest Angola (180.21/1000)
• Lowest Singapore (2.31/1000)
• United States 6.26

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• 6) Percentage of urban population
• Top 10 Urban Agglomerations in 2000
• Tokyo, Japan
• Mexico City, Mexico
• New York-Newark, USA
• Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Bombay, India
• Shanghai, China
• Calcutta, India
• Delhi, India
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, USA