Transcript Folie 1

Colonies (Dependent Territories)
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Affluence: Rich vs Poor States
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Affluence: Rich vs Poor States
• Why are some countries rich while others are
poor? That is certainly an interesting question.
• If we want to be able to answer it, we first
need to know the criteria that would allow us
to objectively assess the affluence of a country
• Gross Domestic Product = GDP
• Gross domestic product = the market value of
all final goods and services produced in a
country in a given period.
Affluence: Rich vs Poor States
• GDP per capita = most widely used measure, it
allows us to compare small and big countries
• (Singapore may have smaller total GDP than
China, but people living in Singapore are much
richer than people living in China = Singapore’s
GDP per capita is higher than China’s
• List of countries from the richest to the poorest
(based on the GDP per capita):
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
Cities vs Rural Areas
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World’s Largest Cities
New York
London
Tokyo
Paris
Sanghai
Buenos Aires
Chicago
Moscow
Colcatta
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Sao Paolo
Mombai
Soul
Lagos
Dhaka
Karachi
Data Source: Geography Maturita
1950
12.3
8.7
6.7
5.4
5.3
5
4.9
4.8
4.4
4
1970
16.2
8.6
14.9
8.3
11.2
8.4
8.4
9.4
8.1
1990
16.2
2010
17.2
18.1
28.8
13.4
11.5
16.6
11.8
11.9
20.2
17.4
11.2
11
15.6
18.7
19.7
23.7
16.7
16.6
15.6
Urbanization Trends
Data Source: Geography Maturita
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Notes
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