Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Differences
Between Rich
and Poor
Countries
- A world
divided by
wealth
- Poverty
- 40k children
starve to
death daily
- Extreme poverty
= living on
>$1/per day
- People can't provide
rudimentary essentials
needed for daily life for
themselves
- 1/5 of the world's
population live in
extreme poverty
- Distribution of
world resources
- Europe + Central Asia
= 3.5% of people in
extreme poverty
- Sub-Saharan
Africa = 38.5% of
people in extreme
poverty
- Richest 1% of the
world own 40% of the
world's wealth
- 50% of world's
adults own 1% of
world's wealth
- Differences in the
lives of the rich and
poor
- Five basic needs
- Rich World
- Food
- Cheap, easy
to come by,
and varied
- Overeating
causes health
problems
- Water
- Taken for
granted
- rarely
unavailable
on faucet
- People become
frustrated if not able to
water their flowerbeds
with a hosepipe
- Education
- Free
education
provide
- More
education =
better job
- Health
- UK: low infant
mortality rate
- UK: free healthcare
available (NHS)
- Work
- More people have
high income/high
skilled jobs
- Working conditions
are monitored and
supervised
- In unemployment
crises financial
support and training
opportunities are
available to aid you
- Poor World
- Food
- Scarce and
expensive
- Malnutrition
is common
- Water
- Millions of girls and
women spend hours
collecting water
- 1.2 billion = no access to
clean water, 2.6 billion =
no access to sanitation, 2
million child deaths/per
annum
- Education
- 855 million =
functionally illiterate,
73 million children =
no primary education
- Health
- High infant
mortality rate
- hospital provision is
poor and drugs are
expensive
- Work
- More low
paid/low
skilled jobs
- working
conditions are
rarely
regulated
- No support
during
unemployment
crises