Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Research project on Sub-Suharan Africa

1. What is the Total Population of each of these nations?
Nigeria- 149,229,090
Ethiopia- 85,237,338
Sudan-41,087,825
Kenya-39,002,772
South Africa- 49,052,489
Unites States-307,212,123

2. What is the TFR?
Nigeria- 4.91 children
Ethiopia- 6.12 children
Sudan-4.48 children
Kenya- 4.56 children
South Africa- 2.38 children
United States-2.05 children

3. What is the Crude Birth Rate?
Nigeria- 36.65 births
Ethiopia-43.66 births
Sudan-33.74 births
Kenya- 36.64 births
South Africa- 19.93 births
United States-13.82 births

4. What is the Crude Death Rate?
Nigeria-16.56 deaths
Ethiopia- 11.55 deaths
Sudan- 12.94 deaths
Kenya-9.72 deaths
South Africa- 16.99 deaths
United States-8.38 deaths

5. What is the overall Life Expectancy?
Nigeria-46.94 years
Ethiopia- 55.41 years
Sudan- 51.42 years
Kenya- 57.86 years
South Africa-49.98 years
United States- 78.11 years


6. What is the infant mortality rate?
Nigeria- 94.35 deaths
Ethiopia- 80.8 deaths
Sudan- 82.43 deaths
Kenya- 54.7 deaths
South Africa- 44.42 deaths
United States- 6.26 deaths

7. What is their colonial experience? Who did they gain their independence from, and when?
Nigeria- This was a British colony. Their independence came on October 1, 1960 from the United Kingdom.
Ethiopia- They were not colonized and they are the oldest independent country in Africa. They have had their independence for at least 2,000 years.
Sudan-January 1, 1956 from the United Kingdom and Egypt
Kenya- December 12, 1963 from the United Kingdom.
South Africa- May 31, 1910 from Union of South Africa which was formed from four British colonies. On May 31, 1961 the republic was declared.
United States- July 4, 1776 from Great Britain.


Find and copy a map of each country, along with the country's flag.

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Find and copy a population pyramid for each nation.

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Would you consider each of these nations a developed country or a developing country? Why?
I would consider Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, and South Africa all developing countries because in all of these countries there are many people born but there are many deaths at young ages. As you can see on the population pyramid in all of these countries at the bottom of the pyramid it is very long and at the top it is very small. So it is shaped like a Hersey’s kiss. This symbolizes that there are so many people being born but so many people dying at a young age and little people living to the age of fifty or above. The United States is a developed country because they are a lot of people that live to be older and a small amount of people are dying at a young age. The USA population pyramid is wide in the middle, the bottom, and top, this shows that people in the USA live to be all different ages.

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