Closing the Gap Final Product
Chad and Japan
Two completely different countries in completely different parts of the world. Chad is a developing country while Japan is a very well developed country. Chads population is around 13.35 million with a density of 10.3 people per square kilometres, while Japan has a large population of 126.3 million and a very high density of 334.7 people per square kilometres. Somehow even with such a high density rate and such compact living, Japan is still a very well developed country all because of one major difference: Education. Japan have the highest literacy rate in the world with 99.98% of all Japanese able to read and write. This is Japan’s foundation of being so successful and well developed. Chad’s literacy rate is very low at 35.5% along with an average of 1.5 years of schooling. All these factors are completely opposite to Japan, who value education and have an average of 11.5 years of schooling. Because of this very high literacy rate, there are many highly qualified employees, seeking well paid jobs, in a wide variety of fields. This increase Japans production, technology and innovative ideas that supplies the enormous 5.954 Trillion Gross Domestic Product. Chad is quite poor because they have never had “strong foundations” and when they have been working towards one, it gets ripped apart. Chad has experienced lots of complications, often to do with the many civil wars and constant political turmoil that happens in Chad. Though Japan has had its own deviations like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki they have still bounced back and grown as a nation. This is due to the resources and management of the issue. The soil Chad stands on itself is poor and very dry so this means not many crops can be grown, not only decreasing exports but directly impacting the inhabitants. Chad is also in the middle of the continent Africa, which means it, is hard to export and import without ports as there is no surrounding seas. Chad is greatly in debt with the World Bank, as when they have borrowed money, they have not used it wisely. They have spent it on present things, like hospitals, but have not accounted for the future, such as education. The literacy rate is extremely low at 1.5 years of education in the average adult. This means poor employment opportunities. As Japan have good wages, they earn more, spent more and buy more which greatly boost the economy. They also have an extremely high export rate. Chads Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 13.51 Billion USD (2013) compared to Japan’s 5.954 Trillion USD. You may think Japan has GDP should be higher as of the large population but if you look at the Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (per person) Chad’s 1,053.66 USD is while Japan’s is 46,679.27 USD, telling you something is defiantly wrong. This coincides with Chad’s 80% of the population living under the poverty line compared to Japan’s 6%.