Undeveloped countries

The most important problem of the world economy in the early twenty-first is to overcome poverty and backwardness. In today's world poverty and backwardness characterized especially for developing countries, where almost two thirds of the world population. Therefore, this global problem is often called the problem of overcoming the backwardness of developing countries.
For most of these countries, particularly the least developed, typical of strong retardation. As a result, for many of these countries are characterized by appalling poverty. So, 1/4 of the Brazilian population, one third of inhabitants of Nigeria, half of India's population consume goods and services on less than $ 1 a day. As a result of malnutrition in the world affects about 800 million people. In addition, a significant portion of poor people are illiterate. Thus, the illiteracy rate among the population aged over 15 years is 17% in Brazil, Nigeria - 43% and in India - 48%.

Demographic problems

Demographic explosion

Demographic explosion - a sharp increase in population as a result of reduction in mortality at too high fertility.

Demographic explosion, on the one hand, helps to rejuvenate the world's population increases labor countries, on the other - raises a number of both global and regional problems - exacerbates poverty exacerbates the problem of nature protection, creates a food shortage, etc.

Demographic crisis

Demographic crisis - a violation of human reproduction, threatening the life of the population. Under demographic crisis can be understood as a loss of population and overcrowding . In the first case it is a situation that is developing in the country or region where the birth rate falls below the level of simple reproduction of the population, as well as lower mortality rates. This situation is currently formed in Russia. If overpopulation, under demographic crisis understand the discrepancy in population areas of its ability to provide residents with vital resources.

Литература и средства обучения

Основная литература

1. Максаковский В.П. «География 10 класс». Учебник М., «Просвещение». 2000г. (перевод)

2. Physical geography: fundamentals of the physical environment, V. Ettwein and M. Maslin, University of London, 2011

3. Geo data. The World Geographical Encyclopedia, third edition, John F. McCoy, Project Editor: Thomson Gale 2003

4. Халина В.Н. «География человеческой деятельности: экономика, культура, политика» Учебник для 10-11 классов, М., Просвещение, 1995г. (перевод)

5. Secondary geography for classes IX-X, Dr. Shamsul Alam, Kazi Abdur Rouf, Selina Shahjahan, 2011

Дополнительная литература

1. А.И. Комарова, И.Ю.Окс, Ю.Б.Бадмаева Английский язык для географических специальностей, М.: Академа, 2005

2. Темирбеков А.Т. Фурсина Г.А. и др. «Политическая карта мира; история формирования и новейшие изменения». Учебно-методическое пособие по курсу «Экономическая и социальная география мира» Алматы. Казак Университет. 2000г. (перевод)

3.Англо-русские, русско-английские словари.

4. Лингвострановедческий словарь. Великобритания.-М.,2002