Geography of the Non-Western World: GEO 105 Recitation

Lab #6 The Development of Countries Week of 5/8/00

Name:___________________________________ Recitation #:_______ Group #:______

Objective: To understand the concept of development and how it is applied to different countries around the world.

Procedure: Each group will be assigned a country. Using information from your atlas and textbook, you will determine the level of development for your assigned country.

Your assigned country:______________________

Define development. Is it a subjective or an objective term? Why?

The following factors are important in determining the level of development of a country. For each, provide your assigned country's data and compare them to global averages (if no global averages can be found, use the U.S. averages for comparison):

FACTOR DATA GLOBAL/U.S. AVERAGES

population

growth rate

physician density

level of

urbanization

birth rates

gross domestic

product (per capita)

literacy rates

death rates

predominant

economies

life expectancy

What stage on the demographic transition model do you think your assigned country falls under? Why?

Given all of these factors, do you think your assigned country is an MDC ("more developed country")or a LDC ("lesser developed country")?

This worksheet is due at the end of the recitation period.