7.6.3: The Least Industrialized Nations In the Least Industrialized Nations, most people live on small farms or in villages, have large families, and barely survive. These nations account for 68 percent of the world’s people but only 49 percent of the Earth’s land. Poverty plagues these nations to such an extent that some families actually live in city dumps. This is hard to believe, but look at the following photos, which I took in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Although wealthy nations have their pockets of poverty, most people in the Least Industrialized Nations are poor. Most of them have no running water, indoor plumbing, or access to trained teachers or doctors. As we will review in Chapter 11, most of the world’s population growth occurs in these nations, placing even greater burdens on their limited resources and causing them to fall farther behind each year. Hearing from the Author: The Dump People Listen to the Audio Through the Author's Lens The Dump People Image Viewer Preview Hens14e Ch9 - Through the Author's Lens: The Dump People 0401 NS View Gallery Credits: Ingvar Björk/Alamy Stock Photo; James M. Henslin
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