Development

Development

Contents

    • Contrasts between MEDC’s and LEDC’s in measures of population such as; birth rate, death rate, natural increase, health; such as infant mortality, people per doctor and life expectancy, housing, literacy and GNP.
    • Economic impacts on development
    • How the environment contributes to development
    • Differences in availability of resources between MEDC’s and LEDC’s
    • The main pattern of trade between the North and the South
    • Why is aid needed?

Contrasts between MEDC’s and LEDC’s in measures of population such as; birth rate, death rate, natural increase, health; such as infant mortality, people per doctor and life expectancy, housing, literacy and GNP

Development is often taken to mean the wealth of a country. The most developed countries (the MEDCs) are relatively rich countries and the less developed countries (LEDCs) are relatively poor countries. Development, however, is also about ‘quality of life’ or ‘standard of living’ and the extent to which all the people have a decent basic stand of living.

|                                           |MEDC                                       |LEDC                                       |
|Birth rate                                 |Low 10-16 babies born per 1000 people       |High 20-45 people born per 1000 people     |
|Death rate                                 |Low due to good health care                 |High due to poor health care and a wide     |
|                                           |                                           |spread of disease                           |
|Natural increase                           |Low (below 1%)                             |High 2-3.5% or more                         |
|Infant mortality                           |Very few children die before the age of 5   |A high proportion of children die before   |
|                                           |in MEDC’s                                   |the age of 5 in...