1. 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

2. Essential Understanding #1
Levels of economic development vary from country to country and from place to place within countries

3. Essential Understanding #2
Resources and technology influence
economic development and quality of
life

4. Differences between developed and developing countries
1) Access to natural resources
2) Access to capital resources

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

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

7. Indicators of economic development
1) Urban/rural ratio

8. 2) Labor force characteristics: - Primary sector
- Secondary sector
- Tertiary sector

9. 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

10. 4) Educational achievement

11. 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

12. 3) Literacy rate

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

14. 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