A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS :

LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE

Tables and graphs

Analyses

We can note that our continental comparison, between Latin America and Europe, has got a lot of differences and a few resemblances in all the different sectors.

The similitude concern the Education, indeed the schooling rate and the government’s spend for the education are relatively similar for the two continents.
Thus, the proportion of children who go to school in Europe is higher by only 3 points than the proportion of children who go to school in Latin America.
In Europe, there is an over proportion of the government’s spend for the education by 1.1 point comparatively to the government’s spend for the education in Latin America.
In our opinion, that’s a good sign for Latin Americans’ future, because we could expect that the new generation will have better qualifications and then increase Latin America’s place in the international market.

It’s obvious that Latin America and Europe are really different. Indeed,
- On average, in Latin America, there are 97 inhabitants less per square kilometers than in Europe.
- There are more of two times more inhabitants in Europe than in Latin America.
- Even if the two population growth are very low, the Latin America’s one is higher by 1.1 than the Europe’s one, so we can expect that, progressively, Latin America’s population will overtake ours.
- The European women live more of three years more than the Latin American women.
The European men live more of eight years more than the Latin American men.
We can deduce that European living conditions are better than Latin American living conditions.

- On average, the Latin American women have 1.1 child(ren) more than European women.
- There is an over proportion of dead infant in the infant population by 3 points in Latin America, comparatively to the proportion of dead infant in Europe. It must mean an other time that European living conditions are better.
- In Latin America, the inhabitants have two times less PNB than European. It could imply that Latin Americans have less money than so their living conditions are worse than Europeans’ one.
- We can observe that Europeans have more television and telephones than Latin Americans, it shows that Latin America’s society is less consumer and that probably Latin Americans have less money.
- In Latin America, the unemployed are over represented by 11.3 points comparatively to the unemployed in Europe. It could signify that their economy is in worse conditions than ours.
- The Latin American women are under represented by 12.43 points in the active population comparatively to the European women in the active population. But, in Latin America, 3 women were head of state versus only 1 in Europe (so three times more). We can’t really explain it, maybe when a woman has a child she generally stops working and doesn’t work until her child is older, or maybe this paradox can be explain by the fact that there are lots of differences between the countries of Latin America, so some countries might be very liberal for women whereas in some others there could be lots of prejudices against women.
- On average, there are nearly as Latin Americans as Europeans who know how to read. But, in Latin America, in some countries there is a majority of illiterate and in some others there are just a little (i.e. : in Honduras, out of 100 people there are 79 illiterates whereas in Uruguay out of 100 people there are only 4 illiterates).
- During the XX c., there have been 7 politic troubles more in Latin America than in Europe. We can infer that the governments are less stable in Latin America than in Europe.
- In Latin America, there are 6 points more Republics than in Europe. But as we saw it just before there are more politic troubles so these Republics could be only a façade.
- In Latin America, out of 100 000 people, there are 10 homicides more than in Europe. We come to the conclusion that their society is less structured and that their living conditions are worse than ours.

The fact that our living conditions are better than the Latin Americans’ one is clearly shown up. Nowadays there are lots of differences between Europeans and Latin Americans. It seems that Latin American is processing.

Sources of the tables

- www.eurolatino.com
- www2.unesco.org
- www.quid.com
- www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html
- www.focusintl.com
- www.insee.org

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