The countries that are MEDCs have higher GDP per capital (gross domestic product), higher enrolment in education, higher adult literacy, a higher life expectancy, a higher percentage in access to safe different water and higher calorie intake. The MEDCs also have a lower population size (per Sq.Km), less people per doctor and a lower infant mortality. On the other hand LEDCs have lower GDP per capita, lower enrolment in education, lower adult literacy, a lower life expectancy, a lower percentage to access to safe drinking water and a lower calorie intake. They also have a higher population size, more people per doctor, and a higher infant mortality. The GDP per capita is normally more than $20,000 for MEDCs and less than $1000 for LEDCs. In addition, the education, adult literacy, life expectancy and access to safe drinking water normally have a percentage above than 90% for MEDCs and the LEDCs have a percentage less than 50%. Moreover, the MEDCs have a population of less than 50 people per Sq. Km and approximately 300 people per doctor with an infant mortality of less than 10 per 1000 births. However, the LEDCs have a population of 50- 100 people per Sq. Km and approximately 4000 people per doctor with an infant mortality of more than 50 per 1000 live births.
If I could measure the development in the countries, to improve the country’s HDI, I would have to use other indicators to the ones listed above. This would allow me to see if the indicators, which I have considered, affect my hypothesis. I have invented/ came up with three indicators, which I could use to improve my hypothesis. Firstly, I would measure the community, which would show me the amount of community in each town/village which would also be connected to my second indicator of measuring how many people are consisted in each family to see if the family is more populated leading to happiness. Lastly, I would measure the amount of twenty-first century facilities in each town/village/country to improve the wealth (HDI) of each country. Ideally, this would indeed effect my hypothesis but not a lot seeing as I have only considered three indicators.
In conclusion, my hypothesis is correct as most of the MEDCs are in the northern hemisphere and all my LEDCs are in the southern hemisphere. For the reason of all the indicators which were recorded on each country to show the highness or lowness of the HDI of each country. The main reason for why the MEDCs are in the northern hemisphere is Urbanisation. Meaning means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas. An urban area is a built area such as a town or city. A rural area is an area of countryside. As a country industrialises the number of people living in urban areas tend to increase. The MEDCs urbanised during the 18th and 19th centuries, while the LEDCs went through the process of desertification so more people moved to the MEDCs making it harder for the LEDCs to produce like the MEDCs.
