Notes pages 19 – 23

More than 180 countries in the world.

Common to recognize countries through membership in the UN.

There are 193 UN members in 2014

Development measured in a variety of ways, the two most common;

1- Indicators of SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: educational achievement, literacy rates, health care.

2- Indicators of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: GDP, ratio of cars to people.

Countries with similar social and economic development are often grouped together. But how many groups?

Too few groups and each member will be very different from the next.

Too many groups and comparisons are complex and difficult.

Developed & Underdeveloped

Developed & Developing

North & South

Confusion in defining economic and non-economic

development.

Allows (implies) the movement of

countries from the developing to the

developed category.

Too many exceptions.

(Australia, New Zealand)

First, Second, and Third World

Developed, Newly Developed, and

DevelopingFirst World – capitalist countries

Second World – formerly or currently communist countries

Third World – developing or south countries in the previous classification

Adds a transitional stage for countries moving from agricultural economies to industrial economies.

First World

Second World

Third World

Fourth World

Fifth World

Highest levels or social and economic development

Are or were communist.

High social but poorer economic development

Advanced in transition to development.

Social and economic development between First and Fourth Worlds

Early stages of transition towards developed

Little evidence of transition towards development.

Use the data on page 24 and the marking scheme on the following slides in order to create one of the following two graph types.

Linear vs Linear Linear vs Logarithmic (Semi-Logarithmic)

A- Natural increase in population per 1000 people

B- Infant mortality per 1000 births

C- Literacy percentage

D- Per capita GDP $US

E- Percentage of GDP from agriculture

F- Motor vehicles per 1000 people

G- Per capita electricity use KWh

H- Number of phone lines per 1000 people

 Item

 Criteria

  

 Score

 Title

 printed neatly, underlined, and clearly reflects the topic

  

  /3

 Legend

 quality of construction, accuracy of definition, and symbols

  

  /3

 Reference

 source and author

  

  /2

 Labeling

 axes units, and titles labeled

  

  /4

 Construction

 use of colour, shading, and ruler

  

  /3

 Accuracy

 Features graphed accurately and completely

  

  /5

 Total

  

  /20

Analysis (answer on back of graph)

Explain the relationship between the indicators you have chosen ? (/4)

Identify those unusual points (outliers) which are present and explain their significance. (/6)