Country Profile Worksheet
OVERVIEW
1.What is the full
name of your country?
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
2. Where is your country located?
(Include the continent, bordering countries and bodies of water)
3.
How does its geography affect its political relationships?
4. What is the capital city of your country?
London
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PEOPLE
1.
What is your country’s population and growth rate?
The
population is 63,047,162
2. Which ethnicities can be found in your country? (Include percentages)
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
overseas
departments: black,
white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian
3. Which languages are spoken in your country? (Include
percentages)
French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and
languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect)
4. Which religions
are practiced in your country? (Include percentages)
Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%-10%, unaffiliated 4%
overseas departments: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, pagan
GOVERNMENT
1.
What sort of government does your country have?
Republic goverment
Republic goverment
2. Who is the head of state? How is s/he elected or appointed? What is their title?
What is the name of the legislative body?
The
President is Nicholas Atarkozy since may 16th 2007,
3.What
types of ideologies (political, religious or other) influence your country’s
government?
4.
Which domestic issues might influence your country’s foreign policy?
HISTORY
1.What are
some major events in your country’s history? Why are they important?
At its zenith in the 19th century, the
British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth's surface. The first half
of the 21000th century saw the UK's strength
seriously depleted in two world wars and the Irish Republic's withdrawal from
the union.
2. Did your country colonize any other country(ies)? If so, which one(s)?
Yes, they colonized Canada, United States, Egypt, North America, Hong Kong. etc.
3.
Was your country ever colonized? If so, by which country(ies)?
no
ECONOMY
3.
Define Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Gross
Domestic Product is the total of all the
transactions made in the country
4.
What is your country’s GDP ($USD)?
$2.25 trillion
5. How does it
compare to other countries worldwide?
$2.225 trillion (2010 est.)
$2.225 trillion (2010 est.)
$2.195 trillion (2009 est.)
6. What is the GDP
per capita?
$35,900 (2011 est.)
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7.
What is the public debt of your nation? (% of GDP) 79.5%
8.
What is the size of the labor force? 31.76 million
9.By occupation: agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 18.2%
services: 80.4% (2006 est
10. What is the
unemployment rate? 7.9%
11.
What percentage of the population lives below the poverty line? 14%
12.
What is the inflation rate? 47.5%
13.
What are your country’s major exports? manufactured
goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco
14.
What are your country’s major imports? Who are your major trading partners?
manufactured goods,
machinery, fuels; foodstuffs
Germany 13.1%, China 9.1%,
Netherlands 7.5%, France 6.1%, US 5.8%, Norway 5.5%, Belgium 4.9% (2010)
15.
Identify the general characteristics of your country’s economy.
HEALTH
1.
What is the life expectancy at birth for men and women?
male: 78.05 years
female: 82.4 years
2.
What are the birth and fertility rates?
1.91
children born/woman
3.
What is the maternal mortality rate?
12 deaths/100,000 live
births
4.
What is the infant mortality rate?
total: 4.56 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 5 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)
5.
What are the major infectious diseases?
HIV/AIDS
6. What is the
HIV/AIDS infection rate?
85,000 people
7.
What are the major general health concerns for your country?
HIV
AND AIDS.
EDUCATION
1.
What is the literacy rate?
definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of
schooling
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99%
2.
Is education free and/or mandatory in your country?
3. How many years, on average, do children attend
school?
total: 16
years
male: 16 years
female: 17
years
4.
At what age do children begin school?
5.
How many colleges or universities does your country have? What are the
admission/attrition rates?
DEVELOPMENT
AND FOREIGN AI
1.
Is your country considered part of the “developed” or “developing” world?
developed
2.
Does your country receive significant external assistance from other countries
or organizations? If so, what type of assistance does it receive? Food,
medicine, etc? No
ENVIRONMENT
1.
Describe your country’s climate. temperate;
moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more
than one-half of the days are overcast
2.
What environmental problems does your country face? What solution has your country
implemented or proposed to address environmental issues?
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3.
What are its most important natural resources?
coal, petroleum, natural
gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum,
potash, silica sand, slate, arable land
4.
What are its main energy sources?
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MILITARY
1.
What percentage of GDP is spent on defense? ________%
2.
Does your country have missile/nuclear capabilities? Please describe.
Yes
Yes
3.How
does your country’s military acquire members? Is there a draft? Voluntary
sign-up?
they volunteer
sign-up?
they volunteer
4.
Are children involved in your country’s military? If so, at what level?
Reservists serve a minimum
of 3 years, to age 45 or 55; 16 years of age for voluntary military service by
Nepalese citizens in the Brigade of Gurkhas; 16-34 years of age for voluntary
military service by Papua New Guinean citizens
CONFLICTS/ISSUES
1.
What are two major problems affecting your country?
1: producer
of limited amounts of synthetic drugs and synthetic precursor chemicals; major
consumer of Southwest Asian heroin, Latin American cocaine, and synthetic
drugs; money-laundering center
2: in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to reject any "shared sovereignty" arrangement between the UK and Spain; the Government of Gibraltar insisted on equal participation in talks between the two countries; Spain disapproved of UK plans to grant Gibraltar greater autonomy; Mauritius and Seychelles claim the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory);
2: in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to reject any "shared sovereignty" arrangement between the UK and Spain; the Government of Gibraltar insisted on equal participation in talks between the two countries; Spain disapproved of UK plans to grant Gibraltar greater autonomy; Mauritius and Seychelles claim the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory);
2.
Have any ethnic, cultural or political issues led to violence? Please describe.
British troops currently fighting in afghanistan
British troops currently fighting in afghanistan
3. Provide details of the most recent conflict, either domestic or international, if one exists.
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