Posts and Responses

One of your classmates forwarded this interesting map visualization.  Please comment on what important information is gleaned from the map, and what is missing?

What countries of the Middle East experience the highest rates of unemployment?  How about the lowest?  What are some reasons for these patterns?  Do you believe unemployment contributes to political problems in these areas?

This map and chart illustrate one of the most important aspects of the Middle East region – the uneven distribution of a very important natural resource.  One can make connections between this map and migration, GDP, settlement, war and more.  What do you think?

Gross Domestic Product per capita includes temporary foreign workers but does not mean the money is distributed evenly across a population.  Also, one might consider viewing the % population younger than 15 and think about the implications thereof.

The US GDP per capita is approximately $45,000 which would place us third to Kuwait and Qatar.