Countries to be developed by 2050 (health insurance, crime, incomes)

[DBCC]

The Latin America Nuevo, including Central America, Mexico, Florida, Texas and California. Arizona may be able to remain in the United States if it can keep up its illegal immigrant laws.

[patrix542]

There you go: All of the green countries are FIRST world and are DEVELOPED. The light green and yellow is second world and its developing. the rest is third world and undeveloped. its 2009 so its very up to date.

[Neuling]

I don't think much of those statistics. GDP is a very poor indicator.
Also, big countries tend to be very diverse inside. In the case of Brazil for instance, greater São Paulo is more advanced than Portugal or East Germany, but other parts of that giant country are at the same level as Ghana or Afghanistan.

[patrix542]

Originally Posted by Neuling

I don't think much of those statistics. GDP is a very poor indicator.
Also, big countries tend to be very diverse inside. In the case of Brazil for instance, greater São Paulo is more advanced than Portugal or East Germany, but other parts of that giant country are at the same level as Ghana or Afghanistan.

The maps is HDI nd GDP

[Neuling]

Well, if Saudi-Arabia and Libya have the same HDI as Brazil, obviously the GDP still has too much weight in the calculation of the HDI.

[alarm35m]

Originally Posted by John McClane

If Mexico is not a poor 3rd world country than why are there millions of illegal immigrants from Mexico living in the United States.

If the United States shared a border with Switzerland instead of Mexico, I doubt you would see millions of illegal Swiss immigrants living in the U.S. Most Swiss people financially have it too good so they don't need to leave their country for a better life else where.

We'll immigration from Mexico has really began to drop. India and China are now 2nd and 3rd in amount of dollars sent to those countries. Most Mexican immigrants that reside in the U.S. have been here for quite a while, at least five years.

[Tiger Beer]

The funny thing is is that pretty much everywhere you go, there are cars, bridges, highways, trains, subways, restaurants, hotels, mcdonalds, t-shirts, levis, rock albums, radio stations, electric guitars, computers, stereos, large buildings, big houses, buses, etc. everything you can imagine.

So who really knows what DEVELOPED and NON-DEVELOPED is suppose to really imply to anyone?

[alarm35m]

Originally Posted by Canaan-84

I know that, but like I learned in class I think we should call countries like Mexico middle income instead of third world (or low income like my text called them). Why don't people use those terms more? Why only classify countries in two categories, why can't there be a middle?

Well here's a couple of facts.

In terms of US-Mexico trade, in 2009 Mexico had a positive trade surplus of $55 billion dollars against a negative deficit of $55 billion for the United States, showing that the NAFTA agreement has now began to work more for Mexico than the United States. In August 2010 Mexico surpassed France to became the 9th largest holder of US debt, which some economists have predicted may give Mexico a position of economic leverage against the United States in international trade, especially when combined with Mexico's now large trade surplus against the United States. In 2009 Mexico surpassed the world bank's high income economic threshold to become a high income country and is one of the five high-income countries of Latin America the others being Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Panama. The global economic recession that began in late 2008 had a noticeable effect in the country: in 2007 the economy grew by 7.1%, only to contract by 6.9% in 2008. However, in 2009 Mexico began to recover maintaining a 7.6% growth rate from 2009-2010 making Mexico's economy one of the fastest expanding in the world with rate comparable to China, Brazil and India. Inflation has reached a record low of 3.3% in 2005, and interest rates are low, which have spurred credit-consumption in the middle class.

[alarm35m]

Main import partners in Mexico

United States 44.3%
Brazil 31.5%
Chile 9.3%
China 5.5%
South Korea 5.3%
Japan 4.1%

Main export partners in Mexico

United States 49.2%
Germany 15%
South Korea 12.5%
China 10.3%
Chile 8.4%

The remittances from Mexican citizens working in the United States account for 0.2% of Mexico's GDP[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico#cite_note-150"][/URL] which was equal to US$20 billion dollars per year in 2004 and is the tenth largest source of foreign income after oil, industrial exports, manufactured goods, electronics, heavy industry, automobiles, construction, food, banking and financial services.

It use to be 3rd and shows how the country begins to depend less on remittance and how immigration is beginning to slow down.

[paull805]

there's privileged and underprivileged in ever country, some more and less than others, but for that one underprivileged person no matter what country, they are living in the third world, its actually worse that people are suffering starvation in developed countrys that have the means to do something about it, its a desperate plight for whoever is in a situation like that