LITERACY RATE AND STANDARD OF LIVING: EUROPEName: ______Date:______
Compare literacy rates and standard of living among the five countries given here. What conclusions can you draw? What impact does literacy rate have on standard of living? Do countries with low standards of living have high literacy rates? Write your findings/summary below.
COUNTRIES / LITERACY RATE(TOTAL POPULATION) / STANDARD OF LIVING
(Infant mortality rate = _____ deaths per 1,000 live births) / CULTURAL ATTRIBUTES: LANGUAGE(S) AND RELIGION / Electricity from:
UNITED KINGDOM
Urban pop80% / 99% : Age:15+ completed 5+years of schooling / 1. Poverty rate: 14%
2. GDP Per capita $ 37,500
3. 4.5deaths/1,000 live births / Religion: Christianity 71.6%
Muslim 2.7%
Language: English / Fossil fuels 75.4%
Nuclear 12.3%
Hydroelectric 1.9%
Other- renewable 7.3%
Germany
Urban pop.
______% / ______%
Age ___ and over can read and write / 1. ______deaths/1,000 live births
2. GDP Per capita $ ______
3. Poverty rate: ______ / Religion:
Language: / Fossil fuels ______%
Nuclear ______%
Hydroelectric ______%
Other- renewable ______%
France
Urban pop.
______% / ______Age _____ and over can read and write / 1. ______deaths/1,000 live births
2. GDP Per capita $ ______
3. Poverty rate: ______ / Religion:
Language: / Fossil fuels ______%
Nuclear ______%
Hydroelectric ______%
Other- renewable ______%
Spain
Urban pop.
______% / ______Age _____ and over can read and write / 1. ____ deaths/1,000 live births
2. GDP Per capita $ ______
3. Poverty rate:______ / Religion:
Language: / Fossil fuels ______%
Nuclear ______%
Hydroelectric ______%
Other- renewable ______%
Italy
Urban pop.
______% / ______Age _____ and over can read and write / 1. ______deaths/1,000 live births
2. GDP Per capita $ ______
3. Poverty rate: ______ / Religion:
Language: / Fossil fuels ______%
Nuclear ______%
Hydroelectric ______%
Other- renewable ______%
Russia
Urban pop.
______% / ______Age _____ and over can read and write / 1. ______deaths/1,000 live births
2. GDP Per capita $ ______
3. Poverty rate: ______ / Religion:
Language: / Fossil fuels ______%
Nuclear ______%
Hydroelectric ______%
Other- renewable ______%
CONCLUSION: After investigating the literacy rates and standard of living of five countries, I discovered that
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Standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way these resources are distributed within a population. It is generally measured by standards such as income inequality, poverty rate, real (i.e. inflation adjusted) income per person. It is the ease by which people living in a time or place are able to satisfy their wants. Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country.
Literacy rate definition varies from country to country, but the general understanding is: "'Literacy' is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts…” Simply put, it is how well the citizens in each country can read and write. SS6G11.c
How does the literacy rate of a country affect its standard of living?
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