1. Life and Death in an Unequal World
Mr Boland
Geography

3. The world can be divided up into rich and poor regions
There are huge differences between these regions.

5. “The north” is the wealthier part of the world such as Europe and America (Japan and Australia are included in this because they are rich countries.

6. “ The south” is the the poorer part of the world
“ The south” is the the poorer part of the world. It has 80% of the worlds population but only 14% of the worlds wealth.

8. What is the message of this cartoon

9. What is the message of this cartoon

10. Child mortality is the amount of children that die per thousand of the population.
Child mortality rates in the South are much higher that North.
Child Mortality

12. Reason for high mortality rates
The reasons for high mortality rates are due to the fact that people do not have access to clean water supplies. It is estimated that one child every 15 seconds dies due to sicknesses related to dirty water.
Reason for high mortality rates

14. Can you get 4 other reasons for a high child mortality rate?

15. Other reasons for high child mortality include poverty, malnutrition where people do not have balanced diets or resistence to diseases such as the whooping cough and measles.
Preventive medicine could cure many of these diseases but these countries can not afford this medicine.

17. Life expectancy is the average number of years that people are expected to live.
Life expectancy in the north is a lot higher than in the south
Life Expectancy

19. Life expectancy in the south
With a large infant mortality rate in the south the life expectancy in this area in reduced.
Factors like access to clean water, a balanced diet, access to preventative medicine and wealth contribute to the length of life expectancy also
Life expectancy in the south

22. Life expectancy in the south
As well as poverty, lack of clean water and a balanced diet, war are factors that contribute to the low life expectancy in places such as Africa. While some wars are stopped by the intervention of powerful countries other are not resulting in huge death rates, high infant mortality and low birth rates
Life expectancy in the south

25. Ireland Vs Uganda