Write a paragraph that describes each country's level of development and explain what data helped you arrive at your analysis.

Use the data in the chart to get an idea of each country's level of development.

Country A
Country B
Country C

GDP PPP
$345.2 billion (A)
$354.7 billion (B)
$618 million (C)

Population
27,635,743 (A)
9,088,728 (B)
100,743 (C)

Size
912,050 sq km (A)
450,295 sq km (B)
811 sq km (C)

Terrain
mountains, lowlands, and plains (A)
mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands, mountains in west (B)
mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs (C)

Natural Resources
petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, bauxite, other minerals, hydropower, diamonds (A)
iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower (B)
phosphate (production discontinued in 1979) (C)

Transportation
806 km railways 96,155 km roadways 7,100 km waterways* (A)
11,633 km railways 572,900 km roadways 2,052 km waterways* (B)
0 railways 670 km roadways 5 km waterways* (C)

Communication
6.867 million landlines 28.124 million mobile 8.918 million internet users (A)
5.146 million landlines 11.426 million mobile 8.398 million internet users (B)
4,000 landlines 1,000 mobile 7,800 internet users (C)
Schooling

14 years (A)
16 years (B)
12 years (C)

Life Expectancy
73.93 years (A)
81.07 years (B)
64.39 years (C)

*waterways used for transporting goods