Introduction to development in Year 9

1. If the world were
a village…

2. Earth is a crowded place..
How many people live on Earth?

3. Class Work
We will be creating a world Fact Book based
on the Global Village:

4. Earth is a crowded place..
Such a large figure is hard to understand…
Imagine that the population
of the world is
a village of 100 people.
In this imaginary village, each
person would
represent 73 million people
from the real world.
7 billion people

5. Nationalities..
Where do people come
from in the global village?
61 are from Asia
13 are from Africa
12 from Europe
8 from South & Central
America & the Caribbean
5 from Canada & USA
1 from Oceania

6. Nationalities..
Half of the people in the village come from
the 10 most populated countries…
21 are from China
17 from India
5 from the USA
4 from Indonesia
3 from Brazil
3 from Pakistan
2 from Russia
2 from Bangladesh
2 from Japan
2 from Nigeria

7. Languages…
22 speak a Chinese dialect (18 Mandarin)
9 speak English
8 speak Hindi
7 speak Spanish
4 speak Arabic
4 speak Bengali
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
More than half of the people
speak these 8 languages…
How many
languages can
your class
speak?

8. How old are people in the village?
1/5th
are 9 years old or under…
10 are under 5
10 are 5 – 9 yrs
19 are 10-19 yrs
16 are 20-29
11 are 40-49
9 are 50-59
6 are 60-69
3 are 70-79
1 is over 79
On average, 1 person
dies
and 3 babies
are born each year.
A baby born in
the village can
expect to live until
the age of 63.

9. Religion
32 are Christian
19 are Muslim
13 are Hindus
12 practice Shamanism/animism/
folk religions
6 are Buddist
2 belong to other religions
e.g. Sikhism
1 is Jewish
15 are non religious

10. Food
31 sheep & goats
23 cows, bulls & oxen
15 pigs
3 camels
2 horses
189 chickens (yes,
more than the total
population)
50 people do not
have a reliable
source of food & are
hungry some/all of
the time
20 are severely
undernourished.
The villagers have many animals. They help to
produce or are a source of food. In the village
there are:

11. Air & water
Fresh air & drinkable water are necessities. How
many people in the village of 100 have clean air
& water?
75 have access to
a source of safe water either
in their home or within a short
distance.
The other 25 do not and must
spend a large part of each day
simply getting safe water.
Most of the work
of collecting water is
done by women & girls.
60 have access to
Adequate sanitation – they
have public or household
Sewage disposal –
while 40 do not.
68 breathe clean air,
while 32 breathe air that
Is unhealthy because
of pollution

12. Schooling & literacy
How many in the village go to school?
There are 38 school aged
children in the village,
But only 31 of them attend
School.
There is 1 teacher
Of the 88 people old enough to
Read, 71 can read a little.
17 cannot read at all.

13. Money & possessions
How much money do people in the global village
have?
If all the money in the
Village was divided equally,
Each person would have
About £3900 a year.
The average cost of food, shelter &
other basics is £2500 - £3000pa
But money isn’t
divided equally…
The poorest
20 people have less than
65 p a day.
The richest have more than
£5600 a year.

14. Electricity
How many people in the village have electricity?
Of the 76 who have electricity,
Most use it only at night for light.
76 have electricity…
24 do not
In the village there are:
42 radios
24 TVs
30 telephones (15 are mobiles)
10 computers

15. DEVELOPMENT:
what is
“developed”?
In pairs, you have 60 seconds to consider what “developed” actually means – be
specific rather than general in your discussions

16. Very simplistically, the world can be split into two sections:
HICs (high income countries): these countries,
once referred to as the First World, are
characterised by high disposable incomes (money
to buy luxury goods), diverse industrialised
economies, large service sectors and high
standards of living.
LICs (lower income countries): these countries,
sometimes referred to as the Third World, are
characterised by dependency on agriculture, a low
sphere of influence and little or no disposable
incomes.

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