Unit 2 Lesson 9: Comparing Two Countries

Country A
Country B
Area
Area:
comparative
Climate

GEOGRAPHY

Terrain
Natural
Resources
Land Use

27,750 sq km

slightly smaller than California

slightly smaller than Maryland

varies from tropical in south to cool

temperate in north
mostly rugged and mountainous

tropical; semiarid where mountains in east

cut off trade winds
mostly rough and mountainous

negligible mineral resources, fish

bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold,

marble, hydropower

arable (able to be farmed) land: 11.64%

permanent crops: 0.9%
other: 87.46%

arable land: 28.11%

permanent crops: 11.53%
other: 60.36% (2005)

Natural Hazards

many dormant and some active volcanoes;

about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly
tremors but occasional severe earthquakes)
every year; tsunamis; typhoons

lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and

subject to severe storms from June to
October; occasional flooding and
earthquakes; periodic droughts

Environment:
Current Issues

air pollution from power plant emissions

results in acid rain; acidification of lakes and
reservoirs degrading water quality and
threatening aquatic life

extensive deforestation (much of the

remaining forested land is being cleared for
agriculture and used as fuel); soil erosion;
inadequate supplies of potable water

127,368,000

9,801,664 (July 2012 est.)

0-14 years: 13.1%

15-64 years: 64%
65 years and over: 22.9%

0-14 years: 35.9% (male 1,748,677/female

1,742,199)
15-64 years: 60.1% (male

Birth Rate

8.39 births/1,000 population

23.87 births/1,000 population

Death Rate

9.15 deaths/1,000 population

8.1 deaths/1,000 population

Maternal
Mortality Rate
Infant Mortality
Rate
Life Expectancy

5 deaths/100,000 live births

350 deaths/100,000 live births

2.21 deaths/1,000 live births

52.44 deaths/1,000 live births

84 years

62.years

Physician
Density
Hospital Density

2.063 physicians/1,000 population

0.25 physicians/1,000 population

13.75 beds/1,000 population

1.3 beds/1,000 population

99%

52.9%

67%

52%

Population
Age Structure

PEOPLE

377,915 sq km

Literacy
(age 15 and over
can read and write)

ECONOMY

Urbanization

Per Capita
Income
Unemployment
Rate

$35,200

Population below

16%

4.6%

Country A

Country
$1,300 (2011 est.)
40.6% (2010 est.)

80% (2003 est.)

poverty line

Budget

revenues: $1.971 trillion

expenditures: $2.495 trillion (2011 est.)

revenues: $1.485 billion

expenditures: $1.658 billion (2011 est.)

Agriculture
Products

rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork,

poultry, dairy products, eggs;

coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn,

sorghum; wood

Industries

among world's largest and technologically

advanced producers of motor vehicles,
electronic equipment, machine tools, steel
and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals,
textiles, processed foods
937.6 billion kWh

textiles, sugar refining, flour milling, cement,

light assembly based on imported parts

859.7 billion kWh

309 million kWh

$788 billion

$721.3 million

motor vehicles, semiconductors, iron and

steel products, auto parts, plastic materials,
power generating machinery
$808.4 billion

apparel, manufactures, oils, cocoa,

mangoes, coffee

Petroleum, liquid natural gas, clothing,

semiconductors, coal, audio and visual
apparatus

food, manufactured goods, machinery and

transport equipment, fuels, raw materials

Reserves of
Foreign Exchange
and gold

$1.259 trillion

$1.341 billion

Debt

$2.719 trillion

$665.1 million

Telephones:
Land lines

40.419 million

50,000 (2009)

Telephones:
Mobile

121 million

4 million (2009)

Network Hosts

63.466 million

541 (2010)

Network Users

99.182 million

1 million (2009)

Airports

175

14 (2012)

Railways

27,182 km

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1,210,251 km
paved: 973,234 km (includes 7,803
km of expressways)
unpaved: 237,017 km (2008)

total: 4,160 km
paved: 1,011 km
unpaved: 3,149 km

Electricity
Production
Electricity
Consumption
Value of Exports
Exports
Value of Imports

TRANSPORTATION

COMMUNICATION

Imports

Roads

650 million kWh

$3.352 billion