The Wealth of a Country and Education

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The connections among wealth and poverty, housing and education and war and crime are apparent when looking at the data provided from the Atlas of the Real World. The wealth of a country is a key factor in the success of the education system. If a country can afford to maintain and develop their education system, the people will benefit. It is crucial to understand the general statistics of each: wealth and poverty; housing and education; and war and crime before analyzing how each connects with the other. If a population is educated, those individuals are likely to be wealthier than those who are uneducated; this same population is also prone to less violent crime. Also, if a given population can provide for themselves, then the living situation will be better off. Also, the more stable the dwellings are, the more secure the inhabitants will be.

Wealth and Poverty

It is obvious by looking at the maps within the wealth and poverty subheading in the Atlas of the Real World that developed nations are wealthier than developing nations. Over a span of the past 60 years, the wealthiest countries in terms of US dollars have been the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States, United Arab Emirates, France and Switzerland: all developed countries. On the opposite end of the spectrum, one might predict that developing countries, such as a majority of the countries in Africa and South Asia, would be among the poorest in the world; one would be correct in their assumption. Data supports this statement; Chad, Niger, DR Congo, Botswana and Malawi are among the many African countries placing last in the wealth category. “The industrial revolution… enormously increased the capacity of some groups, mostly Europeans at first, to produce g...

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...ousing, a highly educated population, obviously more wealth and less violent deaths due to crime. Although they did have more prisoners in total, this was because of the steady, effective judicial systems as opposed to third-world countries who fail to capture criminals at all.

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Cappelli, P. (2008). School of dreams: more education is not an economic elixir [Electronic version]. Issues in Science and Technology, 24(4), 59-64.

Dorling, D., Newman, M., & Barford, A. (2008). The atlas of the real world. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson Inc.

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