Transcript South africa

South Africa
Sequeya Jones
PD 3
Mr. Selch
The struggles
Natural Factors
Geography
 South Africa is located at the southern tip of the continent Africa.
South Africa is slightly less than twice the size of Texas
 Total land area total: 1,219,090 sq km
 land: 1,214,470 sq km
Land use:
 Arable land ( capable of producing crops suitable for farming):
12.1%
 Permanent crops: 0.79%
 other: 87.11%
 water: 4,620 sq km
Natural resources
 Gold, copper, nickel phosphate, iron gem diamonds etc.
Roadways
 total: 362,099 km
 paved: 73,506 km
 unpaved: 288,593 km
Economic Factors
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South Africa is a republic country
South Africa has middle income country.
Ethnic groups
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black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5%
GDP (purchasing power) is 495.1 billion
GDP (real growth rate) – 1.8% (2009)
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3.7 (2008)
5.5 (2007)
GDP per Capita 10,100
Unemployment Rate 24%
Inflation rate 7.2%
Income Distribution 65
Human Factors
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The Population of South Africa is
49,052,489 witch is 24 compared to the world of countries due to the
mortality due to AIDS
Population growth rate
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0.281% to the world 174
Population below poverty line: 50%
Birth rates
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19.93 births/1,000 population
Death rate
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16.99 deaths/1,000 population
Migration
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Is -0.13 some people are in search of a better economic opportunities.
The Age structure of south Africa
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0-14 years: 28.9%
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15-64 years: 65.8%
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65 years and over: 5.4%
The Life Expectancy at Birth
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total population: 48.98 years
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male: 49.81 years
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female: 48.13 years
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Human Factors
Education
1. Males and females are expected to complete 13
years of school there is 87% of males over 15
years that can read and write and 85.7 females.
By having low levels of literacy, and education can
have an impact on the economic development of a
country making technology hard to maintain.
2. The Government Expenditures on education is
5.4% of GDP.
3. South Africa has three levels of education General
Education and Training, Further Education and
Training, and Higher Education and Training.
4. South Africa has 12 million learners.
Obstacles to Development
In South Africa they have many things stopping them to
develop within their country either by unemployment,
inflation, and from things like Droughts, and HIV AIDS
that cause their life expectancy to be lower, higher infant
mortality, higher death rates, and lower population
growth rates. South Africa is also facing obstacles in
getting better bus transportation to make it easier for
people to go to work and different events do to a
recession related slowdown in financing. Even though
south Africa is considered the most technologically
advanced country in Africa the rural areas and schools
have poor internet access which serves in a lack of
knowledge of how to use the computer effectively.
Compared to Africa South Africa Is doing well.
Life's obstacles
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People living with HIV it is hard or them to access basic
services in health care.
HIV/AIDS: there are 57 Million people living with ADIS
There is 18.7% of adult age 15-49 living with HIV/AIDS.
Over 350,000 people died making south Africa number
one within other countries.
Other obstacles
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Infant mortality
total: 44.42 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 48.66 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 40.1 deaths/1,000 live births
Why receiving loan
I am asking that my country receives a fare
amount of money to build wider roads and pay
doctors to help out with people who have
HIV/ADIS so the country can be well developed
and having less deaths because of something so
dangerous. To build new buildings for kids and
parents who don’t have homes and to get better
internet access. Compared to Africa this amount
I’m asking for asking for is not a lot 2,000,000
dollars compared to 20 billion a year for Africa to
have good infrastructure in the Sub Saharan
Africa.
Works Cited
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http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Econo
mics/externality.html
CIA WorldFactBook
www.Google.com