MEDC or LEDC – How do we decide?
Starter: Copy down the key terms below. For each make a list of what features/characteristics you would expect
each to have, eg. tall buildings, poor housing
MEDC – More Economically Developed Country - wealthierLEDC – Less Economically Developed Country - poorer
MEDC or LEDC – How do we decide?
What problems did you come across when attempting to decide whether a picture represented an MEDC or LEDC?
Need to use DATA!!!
Key Terms
Standard of Living:
Quality of Life:
Human Development Index (HDI):
A measure of how happy and content people are with their lives, taking into account not only income but also social factors such as access to education and type of housing
How well-off a person or country is, focusing purely on economic factors – income and jobs
A statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development“, taking into account a country’s GDP (wealth), Education and Life Expectancy
Measures of
Development
The total of all money produced per year by a
country’s workers
The percentage of people in the country employed in primary
occupations
The average number of years a person can
expect to liveNumber of patients
divided by the number of doctors
The amount of energy which each person in the country uses per
year
The number of deaths per year per 1000
people
The wealth shared out equally among all the people of a country
Number of adults who can read and write in
every 100 people
The number of children per year out of every
1000 born alive that die before they reach the
age of one
Number of kilocalories (kcals) each person in the country takes in
each day
The number of births per year per 1000
people
Primary Employment; Birth Rate; Infant Mortality; Life Expectancy; GDP; Death Rate; Energy Per Person; Food Intake; GDP per capita; Literacy Rate; People per
doctorEconomic Social
Rich countries Little Trade
High birth and death rates
A lot of tradeHigh infant mortality
The North
Poor countries
Japan, USA and UK
High literacy rate
Rapid population growthThe South
Low literacy rate
Slow population growthPoor education
and health care
Europe, North America and Australasia
High GDP per capita
Good education and health care
Brazil, Kenya and Egypt
Low GDP per capita
Africa, South America and SE
Asia
Low infant mortality
Low birth and death rates
Developed countries - Economic
Developing countries - Economic
Developed countries - Social
Developing countries - Social
Country GDP/capita Rank HDI Rank
Australia
Brazil
Burkina
Canada
China
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Haiti
Iceland
India
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Mexico
Mozambique
Niger
Norway
UK
USA
How do I rank data?
Country Land area (sq km)
Rank (biggest = 1)
UK 244,820
USA 9,629,091
Vatican City 0.5
Russia 17,075,200
Monaco 2
Is there a pattern to the distribution of MEDCs and LEDCs across the World?
MEDC
LEDC
1. Can you identify any patterns for the distribution of LEDCs and MEDCs from your
map? What do you think the line on your map (Brandt Line) divides?
2. For 1 MEDC and 1 LEDC use your Atlas to identify other data which supports your classification. Attempt to explain any relationships you find between other development indicators and wealth
What are the limitations of using Atlas data?
It is important you consider limitations of data you use in your controlled assessment!!!
The Development Continuum…
LEDC MEDC
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