Patterns and trends in income:
There is a massive gap between the rich and the poor, with the richest 5th controlling 74.1% of the world's wealth and the bottom 5th controlling only 1.5%, However, many countries are seeing their national incomes increase (i.e. South-Korea, China and Vietnam are seeing rapid and prolonged growth in income)
In the last 25 years, the main chages in income between different regions of the world include:
-the continued rapid economic growth in the already rich countries relative to most of the rest of the world
-the decline in real income of sub-saharan Africa and Eastern Europe
-the relatively modest gains in Latin America and the Arab States
Patterns and trends in education: The overall trend shows that there has been a global increase in education (except some african countries such as Mozambique or the Maldives)
However, children in middle-eastern and north africa only receive half of the years of education in MEDCs
Reasons may include an overall increase in GDP per capita, which in turn allows increased funding for school, allowing more and more children to reach a satisfactory level of education
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