Comparing Levels of Development Between Japan and Brazil

Within this assessment, I will cover and compare several factors between the development of Japan and the development of Brazil. Japan is an MEDC, which is a More Economically Developed Country and Brazil is an LEDC, a Less Economically Developed Country. The indicators I am about to compare and expand on include a range of factors, from the likes of Population to Area. First of all, Population. There are around 127. 5 million people living in Japan at the moment, compared to Brazil which has a population of just fewer than 194 million people.

The population has a big effect on the development of both countries and in fact the majority of the countries in the world because if a population increases then there are more people to get involved in industry and manufacture. Therefore, more products can be invented or advanced meaning more will be sold to other countries turning in more money for the countries economy. My second indicator is to do with the Environment, more specifically CO? emissions. In Japan, the figure is 9. 8 metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide per capita or person and in Brazil, the current figure stands at around just 1. metric tonnes of CO? per capita. This affects the development of the countries because often the effects of bad environmental factors and causes many people to get ill or even die. If people die, this affects the number of people in the industry. The next indicator is Literacy. In Japan, the adult literacy rate (aged 15 and above) is 99% of the population and the same rate for either male or women. Whereas in Brazil the rate of adult literacy is 88. 6% of the total population. 88. 4% of males and 88. 8% of females.

Literacy is important no matter where you come from and the more people literate in a country the more likely the country is to survive and develop because if people are illiterate, they won’t get very far in the industry. For instance, signing contracts or cheques are assets required to survive in the industry so literacy is regarded as essential in today’s world. The fourth indicator is Transportation, in particular, airports and ports. Japan has 10 key ports in Chiba, Kawasaki, Kobe, Osaka, Tokyo, Moji, Nagoya, Tomakomai, and Mizushima, Yokohama.

Also, Japan has a total of 144 airports. 38% of them with paved runways measuring 0-1500m, 57% of their paved runways measure 1501-3000m and 5% of the runways are 3000m or greater. In Brazil, there are 7 key ports: Guaiba, Ilha Grande, Paranagua, Rio Grande, Santos, Sao Sebastiao and Tubarao. With regards to the airports, there are over 23 times the amount of airports in Brazil than there are in Japan. There are 3346 airports. 1642 of these airport’s paved runways are less than 914m, 1617 are 914m to 1523m and 87 are 1524m to 2437m.

They are 49%, 48% and 3% respectively. The amounts of airports and ports affect the development of a country to a very large extent as the industry is where the majority of a countries income comes from industry and without anywhere to import products there would be near to no industry apart from the industry based in Japan. My fifth indicator is another transport based one. Motor powered vehicles per 1000 people. The figure for Japan is 595 per 1000 people and in Brazil, it’s 198 people per 1000 that own motor vehicles 198 people.

It’s relatively clear that a motor vehicle is quite an essential aspect of life and without any means of transport then life would be very difficult to make industry and development work. My penultimate indicator is the birth rate. The birth rate in Brazil is 16 people per 1000 and in Japan, the figure stands at just 9 births per 1000 people. A birth rate is a key to development because it all links in with development and the higher the birth rate, the higher the population, the higher the number of people helping to work in the development of their country whether it be in industry or just the development or life.

Finally, my last indicator is infant mortality. In Brazil, the mortality rate of 22. 58 deaths per 1000 live births with 26. 16 deaths out of 1000 male live births and 18. 83 deaths out of 1000 female live births. In Japan, the rate is much lower. Their figure is 2. 79 deaths out of 1000 live births and that’s 2. 99 out 1000 male live births and 2. 58 deaths out of 1000 live female births. The large difference in these figures shows that Japan is by far more developed than Brazil as the quality of living conditions in Japan are far better than in Brazil as there is less disease to cause deaths. By Conor Thompson