Country Report Rubric Category Description of Criteria 0 = no info 1 = not yet meeting 2 = minimally meeting 3= fully meeting 4 = exceeding Following directions (8 marks possible X 2 = 16) Required info presented in the report First section of the assignment: all statistics and data from #1-12 All questions answered for #13-19 Required information presented in writing Format: use of report template, full sentences, full paragraphs, images, graphs Works Cited: using MLA8 Content knowledge and Critical Thinking (12 marks possible X 3 = 36) Required Information #13-19 is Reasonable and Demonstrates Understanding Report demonstrates a clear understanding of environmental and at least 1 of social, political, or economic problems. Clearly outlines attempted/possible solutions and probably future concerns/issues. Content Knowledge Demonstrates full knowledge of required information and their larger implications for problems and future predictions. Persuasiveness: required information for #19 Report makes a clearly articulated and convincing argument as to why its country should receive aid money. Arguments supported by details and facts. Total mark out of 52 will then be X 2 for a grand total of 104. Country Report You have been commissioned by Population Probe, an international organization concerned with global population and challenges with living standards. They would like your perspective on the population pressures and resulting environmental, social, political, and economic issues in different countries around the world and would like you to present these issues in a Persuasive Report. Your goal is convince Mrs. Brine to award Population Probe’s five billion dollars of aid money to your country (without skewing, distorting or omitting any facts!) Your Persuasive Report must present the following information for your chosen country: Required Information; try to be as current as possible. These are mostly statistics so you need to describe this information in full sentences and can put it all together in paragraph form. It can all be explained in one paragraph if you choose: 1. current population 2. population density 3. birth and death rates 4. stage in the Demographic Transition Model (give evidence as to how you know this) 5. infant mortality rates 6. life expectancy at birth 7. population growth rate 8. recent population pyramid (insert picture) and explain it 9. dependency ratio 10. emigration/immigration rates: you will likely only find the net migration rate so use that 11. literacy rate 12. GDP or GNP (Gross Domestic Product or Gross National Product) The following topics need to be written in paragraph form; one paragraph per question. Please write about these topics as if you are there, visiting and researching in the actual country. Create sub headings in your report for each of these topics: 13. Discussion of national living standards: availability/access of food and water, overpopulation, employment opportunities ...

1. Country Report Rubric
Category
Description of Criteria
0 = no info
1 = not yet meeting
2 = minimally meeting
3= fully meeting
4 = exceeding
Following directions (8 marks possible X 2 = 16)
Required info presented in the report
First section of the assignment: all statistics and data from #1-
12
All questions answered for #13-19
Required information presented in writing
Format: use of report template, full sentences, full paragraphs,
images, graphs
Works Cited: using MLA8
Content knowledge and Critical Thinking (12 marks possible X
3 = 36)
Required Information #13-19 is Reasonable and Demonstrates
Understanding
Report demonstrates a clear understanding of environmental and
at least 1 of social, political, or economic problems. Clearly
outlines attempted/possible solutions and probably future
concerns/issues.
Content Knowledge

2. Demonstrates full knowledge of required information and their
larger implications for problems and future predictions.
Persuasiveness: required information for #19
Report makes a clearly articulated and convincing argument as
to why its country should receive aid money. Arguments
supported by details and facts.
Total mark out of 52 will then be X 2 for a grand total of 104.
Country Report
You have been commissioned by Population Probe, an
international organization concerned with global population and
challenges with living standards. They would like your
perspective on the population pressures and resulting
environmental, social, political, and economic issues in
different countries around the world and would like you to
present these issues in a Persuasive Report. Your goal is
convince Mrs. Brine to award Population Probe’s five billion
dollars of aid money to your country (without skewing,
distorting or omitting any facts!)
Your Persuasive Report must present the following information
for your chosen country:
Required Information; try to be as current as possible. These are
mostly statistics so you need to describe this information in full
sentences and can put it all together in paragraph form. It can
all be explained in one paragraph if you choose:
1. current population
2. population density
3. birth and death rates
4. stage in the Demographic Transition Model (give evidence as
to how you know this)
5. infant mortality rates
6. life expectancy at birth

3. 7. population growth rate
8. recent population pyramid (insert picture) and explain it
9. dependency ratio
10. emigration/immigration rates: you will likely only find the
net migration rate so use that
11. literacy rate
12. GDP or GNP (Gross Domestic Product or Gross National
Product)
The following topics need to be written in paragraph form; one
paragraph per question. Please write about these topics as if you
are there, visiting and researching in the actual country. Create
sub headings in your report for each of these topics:
13. Discussion of national living standards: availability/access
of food and water, overpopulation, employment opportunities or
lack thereof, poverty, health risks, mortality rates, diseases,
hunger and malnutrition (provide examples of as many as you
can as evidence).
14. Analyze the impact of population growth or decline on a
country’s standard of living. Does it have positive or negative
outcomes?
15. Which groups are the most vulnerable people subjected to
poverty and why? How will financial aid help these people?
Include analysis and discussion of the poverty trap.
16. Past or current social, political, or economic problems
arising from population pressures and their solutions (or
attempted/possible solutions).
*must present at least one of social, political, or economic *
17. Address environmental issues in the country including but
not limited to one of the following: global warming, ozone
depletion, acid rain, water supply, soil depletion, deforestation,

4. waste management and what the governmental responses are to
environmental issues.
18. Predicted needs of the population in 50 years (based on
population pyramid and issues likely to arise in the future).
19. How you would spend the aid money in your country to ease
these needs and problems.
More information to help you…
Research: try to find the most up to date information as possible
which may sometimes be difficult depending on your country.
Just do your best. Have a Google doc where you are keeping
track of your notes and statistics along with the links to any
articles you have used. Remember, you need to use these links
later to create a proper Works Cited.
The Report itself: Use the template offered by Google (I will
show you in the video explanation and the link is below). The
report must be written in paragraphs so should not be numbered
as though you are just answering questions. I will be returning
any reports for you to fix if it is not done correctly.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J0VkqWnPVT_EvUx0Zeh
eNIEzAYgycnwrQFISdDsQo8Y/edit
Visuals: especially helpful to present some of this information,
and a visual is required for the population pyramid. Include
pictures from other areas that show aspects of your country.
Works Cited: always required to show academic honesty when
conducting any research. Give credit where credit is due!
Summary of what you will be handing in:
1. Your completed Report in full sentences and paragraphs with
all the topics and awesome visuals.

5. 2. Your Works Cited using MLA8 format.
3. Your Google doc of notes you took while researching and
links you saved along the way.
* Please see the rubric for any other criteria questions you may
have.
Chapter 12 Overview:
Living Standards in a Changing World
Counterpoints 2nd edition: pages 386-421
https://byrnepsych.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/counterpoints_
unit4.pdf
Vocabulary:
Human Development Index standard of living
literacy rate
GDP per capita NGOs
infrastructure
developed countries newly industrializing
countries developing countries
heavily indebted poor countries Millennium
Development Goals mortality
malnutrition globalization
multinational corporations
World Bank OECD
IMF
megaprojects commodities
SAPs
bilateral aid subsistence farming
desertification
UNICEF under-five mortality rate

6. ethnic cleansing
bonded labour subsidies
WHO
malaria HIV/AIDS
UNESCO
foreign aid official development
assistance multilateral aid
tied aid CIDA
Written Response Focus Questions
1. What is the purpose of the Human Development Index?
(Know the 3 indicators!)
2. What are the main differences between ‘developed’ nations
and ‘developing’ or ‘newly industrializing’ nations?
3. What are some of the challenges that come with attempting to
measure living standards?
4. What difficulties are there in comparing poverty in Canada
with poverty in developing countries?
5. Create a t-chart outlining the pros and cons of globalization.
6. How has the debt burden in developing countries prevented
governments from looking after the basic needs of their people?
7. List the principal problems faced by Kenya as a result of the
increasing population.
8. What two strategies would you suggest to help Kenya break
out of the cycle of poverty?
9. Explain why women and children are more likely than men to
face hardships in developing countries.
10. What is the relationship between female literacy and
reduced birth rates?
11. Give three reasons why the literacy rate for women in
developing countries is often lower than that for men.
12. Children are the most vulnerable people in underdeveloped

7. nations. Describe the situation of children with respect to:
a. Under-Five Mortality Rate
b. War
c. Working Conditions
d. Bonded Labour
13. Why should people in the developed world be concerned
about the health of people in the developing world?
14. List the types of aid Canada sends to developed countries.
Chapter 11 Overview: Population Trends and Issues
Counterpoints 2nd edition: pages 356-385
Student Workbook 2nd edition: pages 186-199
Vocabulary:
demography census
developed country
developing countries birth rate
death rate
immigration rate emigration rate natural
increase
exponential rate ‘rule of 70’
doubling time
net migration migrants
population growth rate
life expectancy demographic transition model
industrialization
urbanization family planning
rhythm method
sterilization vasectomy
coercion

8. contraception total fertility rate
one-child policy
infanticide gender selection
population pyramid
age cohorts dependency ratio
dependency load
accreditation Thomas Malthus
neo-Malthusians
carrying capacity ecological footprint
cornucopians
demographic regulation population distribution
ecumene
population density nutritional density
Written Response Focus Questions
1. Why do governments need to study their human population?
How do they go about doing so?
2. Explain why demographic figures must be treated with
caution.
3. What are the main components of population change?
4. What is meant by an exponential rate of growth?
5. Explain the ‘rule of 70.’

9. 6. Describe why death rates began to fall around the world after
1750.
7. What is the purpose of the demographic transition model?
8. What measures has India taken to try and control their
population growth? Has it been effective?
9. What measures has China taken to try and control their
population growth? Has it been effective?
10. Why is it important for a country to know the dependency
ratio for future planning?
11. Why does an aging population present a serious problem in
the developed world?
12. Explain why immigration is very important to Canada.
13. What factors can account for the increase of Aboriginal
peoples in Canada?
14. What predictions can you make about the future of earth’s
population?