The document discusses measures for comparing levels of development across continents, including economic measures like GNI per capita and percentage employed in agriculture, as well as social measures like life expectancy, birth rate, death rate, infant mortality, undernourishment, health spending, and literacy. It asks the reader to rank the continents of LEDCs from most to least developed based on these measures in order to gain a clearer picture of the development gaps worldwide.

1. How accurate is this cartoon? Is the world divided into a simple ‘rich-poor’ division? Your task is to study the following maps and compare the three continents of the LEDCs, putting them into rank order from most to least developed.

2. 1. Economic measures GNI (PPP) per capita

3. 1. Economic measures % employed in agriculture As a country becomes more developed , normally it becomes increasingly industrialised . As even more time passes, the service sector begins to expand. This means that firstly, more and more people are employed in the secondary sector and then they are increasingly employed in the tertiary sector of the economy. Be careful how you rank the continents based on this map!

4. 2. Social measures Life expectancy (years)

5. 2. Social measures Birth rate (births/thousand) People in more developed countries tend to have fewer children.

6. 2. Social measures Death rate (deaths/thousand)

7. 2. Social measures Infant mortality rate (number of children who die before their 1 st birthday/thousand)

8. 2. Social measures % of population undernourished

9. 2. Social measures % of country’s budget spent on health care

10. 2. Social measures % of population literate

11. So how did you rank the continents? Which one came out consistently towards the bottom? Which was at the top? Have you a clearer picture of the development gap across the world?