Transcript L7-9 the 3 worlds model

What do
these 3
colours
represent?
How do they
categorise
the world?
Alfred Sauvy (French
demographer) created the map
to split the world into 3 types of
country
Three world model
• Made in 1952 it
divided the world into
the ‘first’ world made
up of capitalist
countries like UK,
USA, Canada,
Australia, France
etc…
The second world?
• The second world
was the communist
countries of Russia,
China, Mongolia, the
Eastern Block
countries (Poland,
Romania etc… which
are now capitalist like
us)
The 3rd world?
• Theses countries were
called ‘unknown,
exploited and scorned’
and referred to
commonwealth and
colonial countries which
had been claimed by us,
French, Dutch, Spanish
etc… and later we had
to give independence
back to (Such as India,
Kenya, Ghana etc..)
Brandt line
Now we can use…GDP
Or HDI (Even better as it uses GDP,
Life expectancy and education)