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**Development Analysis Mexico ** 

 • **HDI** - .829  • **GDP per capita** - $12,500  • **Primary Sector Jobs**- Farming, Lumberjacks, Ranchers, Milking, Harvesters.  • **Secondary Sector Jobs** - Factory work (Hershey), Tobacco plants, Clothing factories, Automotive factories, Iron and Steel mills  • **Tertiary Sector jobs** - Teachers, Telemarketers, Electricians, Telephone Operator, Flight Attendant  • **Raw Materials** - Wood, Steel, Iron, Wheat, and Petroleum.  • **Consumer Goods** - Tobacco, Food, Beverages, Clothing, and Automobiles  • **Education** - Most of the population is fairly well educated there is still a small percentage of the population that is uneducated. • **Literacy Rate** - 91.6  • **Life Expectancy** - 75.63 Years <span style="color: rgb(184, 25, 204)"> • **Infant Mortality Rate** - 19.63 per 1000 births <span style="color: rgb(21, 158, 108)"> • **Natural Increase Rate** - 15.6 <span style="color: rgb(13, 190, 242)"> • **Crude Birth Rate** - 20.36 births per 1000 population <span style="background-color: rgb(157, 9, 6)"> • **GDI Rank and Factors** - 51st of 157 countries <span style="color: rgb(131, 7, 49)"> • **Types of Industry** - Steel, Iron, Petroleum, Automotive, and Tobacco <span style="color: rgb(131, 10, 209)"> • **Site Factors** - Cheap Labor, a lot of Arable land, Many natural occurring resources including petroleum, gold, lead, copper, zinc, natural gas, timber, and silver. <span style="color: rgb(247, 94, 29)"> • **Situation Factors** - Imports are coming from America therefore many Maquiladoras are located near the U.S. Mexico Border. Other than those there are many factories located near the mining sites in order to lower costs. <span style="color: rgb(43, 188, 26)"> • **Types of Energy** - Electricity, Oil, Natural Gas, Hydroelectricity, Coal, and Mexico has one Nuclear Power Plant. <span style="color: rgb(28, 13, 217)"> • **Problems with Energy** - Mexico has to import some of the resources, which it uses for energy and that can get very costly and the people aren’t the wealthiest in the world. <span style="color: rgb(236, 60, 60)"> • **Pollution Issues** - Mexico has the worst air pollution in the world, from mines and other factories putting out industrial smog, and chemicals. There are many health concerns with people who do not work in mines getting black lung from breathing in the harsh chemicals and dust. The cities at higher altitudes in Mexico suffer the most. The higher altitude has less oxygen and therefore when something burns it does not burn completely so there is a lot of carbon monoxide in the air and it is very dangerous for someone to walk outside with all the dangerous chemicals in the air. Increased truck traffic also helps to worsen air pollution. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="color: rgb(237, 12, 147)"> • **Pollution Prevention** - Mexico is trying to cut back on the emissions from cars by learning techniques such as car-pooling using buses and other forms of mass transportation. They are trying to reduce the use of Private Cars. Also by using alternative fuels. Although these are not reducing air pollution significantly it is helping to reduce it bit by bit which in the long run can turn out to be a major help.

<span style="color: rgb(38, 186, 253)">__Development paragraphs:__ The way that Mexico is now has some promise for the future. Mexico has some problems that could be overcome but it is going to take some time for them to get there. Mexico can potentially be a valuable import of many goods because of cheap labor as well as the vast majority of arable land. The biggest issue Mexico has to face and find a proper solution for is the pollution issue and cutting back on emissions and trying to reduce pollution as much as physically possible as well as still keep up making more jobs and providing more money to help their economy. In 50 years from now, I see Mexico becoming more and more technologically advanced with the help of the United States. Mexico will eventually move into the more developed category when they have more people that are well educated and that can provide specialized services for the people of Mexico. Mexico will eventually become a key player in the world of trade because of their cheaper labor and all their people that are willing to work to make money!

__<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Mexico Compared to Italy __<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">: Compared to Italy <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Mexico is not as good as it should be. Mexico is considered a LDC, while Italy is considered a MDC. Italy has a smaller Natural Increase Rate as opposed to Mexico because Italy is farther along in the development stages than Mexico. Mexico also has a lower literacy rate than Italy because more people in Italy have more education than the people of Mexico. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">So therefore Mexico is worse off than Italy. __<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">M ____<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">exico Compared to Pakistan: __<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Mexico is looks better than Pakistan. Pakistan has a lower literacy rate than Mexico which means Mexicans are more educated than the people in Pakistan. Pakistan is considered to be a LDC just like Mexico so in this way they are similar. Pakistan and Mexico are similar and different in many different ways. __<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Mexico Compared to England: __ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Compared to England Mexico looks worse just as it would look compared to Italy. England has a lower natural increase rate and has a significantly higher than the rates in Mexico. Mexico has a larger Natural Increase Rate and a smaller Literacy Rate therefore there is no comparison between Mexico and England. Mexico just isn't up to par to be compared to an MDC.