Stages of
development
Watch sv: 200 countries, 200 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Average_GDP_PPP_per_capita_2010.svg
World map showing countries above and below the world
average GDP PPP (per capita).
██ above world average
██ below world average
LESS DEVELOPED – LD/
Developing
HUNGER
POLLUTION/SICKNESS
FEW GOOD JOBS
CRIME/CORRUPTION
LESS DEVELOPED – LD/
Developing
High Infant Mortality and
Fertility rates = rapid
population growth
Low GDP, literacy, life
expectancy and HDI
Most do primary jobs, child
labor is common
Ex: Guatemala, Bolivia
LESS DEVELOPED - LD
Nations with people
living in slums by %
Do you think the darker
colors mean more
or fewer people living in
slums?
LESS DEVELOPED - LD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Street_Child,_Srimangal_Railwa
y_Station.jpg
Agriculture
A. In LD/developing
countries, 50-80%
farmers.
B. In the U.S., only 2%
are farmers.
C. WHY?
D. SUBSISTENCE
FARMERS: just
enough to survive,
not for profit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arable_land_percent_world.png
ARABLE =
Rapid Population Growth
¾ of the world’s pop. Live in LD or
Newly Industrialized countries
WHY?
Global births and deaths simulation:
http://www.breathingearth.net/
OVERPOPULATION = Too
many people for the available
resources
MORE DEVELOPED – MD
WEALTH
POLLUTION
MIDDLE CLASS
STABILITY
MORE DEVELOPED – MD/
DEVELOPED
LOW Infant Mortality and
Fertility rates = slow or
negative population growth
HIGH GDP, literacy, life expectancy
and HDI
Most do tertiary and quarternary
jobs
Ex: US, Japan, Australia, Germany
12
2011
7 Billion
Population Density, 2006
Is density related to wealth????
The World’s Youth Population Will Become
More Concentrated in Africa and Asia.
Population Ages 15-24 by World Region: 1950 and 2050
1950
Source: Carl Haub and Mary Mederios Kent, 2009 World Population Data Sheet.
2050
World Population Cartogram, 2008
"Out of every 100 persons added to the population in the coming
decade, 97 will live in developing countries." Hania Zlotnik, 2005
More children are born each year in Africa than are born in the
Americas, all of Europe and Japan put together. Worldwide, more
than a third of a million new people will be born on your birthday
this year.
Illiterate Women
The biggest gaps between male and female literacy are in
Southern Asia, Northern Africa and Southeastern Africa. In
Pakistan, when the number of illiterate boys is subtracted from
illiterate girls, the result is 2.6 million ‘extra’ girls who cannot read
or write; that is 24% of women aged 15-24 there.
Technology to make life easier; machines, factories,
roads, schools, harbors, communications =
INFRASTRUCTURE
How is infrastructure related to
development?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure
Industrialization = growth of
manufacturing (secondary)
Why would this lead to development?
Newly Industrialized Countries
BRIC – Brazil, Russia,
India, China
LESS DEVELOPED
MORE DEVELOPED
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Clark%27s_Sector_Model.png
NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED –
NIC/
Transitional or emerging
MIX of LD and MD in
same country
Middle Class growing,
but Poor still largest
Ex: Mexico, Brazil,
India, China
To succeed, countries need land/resources (or
technology), education, money, infrastructure, and
a STABLE GOVERNMENT
Many of the recent revolutions in the world started over
economic problems and spread to action against governments.