Video 1- As Income per person (GDP/capita) increases, Service workers increase
Video 2- As Income per person (GDP/capita) increases, Agriculture workers decrease
The first two factors I chose were income per person and service workers. GDP per Capita stands for Gross Domestic Product per person. The inflation and differences in the cost of living between countries has been taken into account and it is measured in international dollars. Service workers are workers engaged in tertiary activities such as dentistry and engineering. The statistic is measured as the percent of labor force employed in jobs classified as service activities.
GDP per capita can provide useful economic insight because money is a very large part of economics, it often determines what a country can and can't do to develop. Knowing roughly where a country is in terms of income can help determine if the state will remain agriculturally centered, is ready to industrialize, is industrializing or has deindustrialized. The percentage of service workers in a country can provide economic development insight because not just anyone can perform tertiary tasks. This statistic serves as a peephole into the population of a country in that people in the service sector must be educated, and middle-upper class citizens. Also, the country itself needs to have the means to hold tertiary jobs (ex. proper infrastructure).
The second video demonstrates income per person (which I have explained in the previous paragraphs), and percentage of agricultural workers. The latter statistic is measured as the percent of labor force employed in agricultural activities. This can provide economic development insight because a country with a high percentage of people working in agriculture means the agriculture of that particular country is not advanced enough for the people to start taking steps towards secondary and tertiary jobs- if there aren't any workers, there can't be new jobs.
In general, more developed countries have higher percentages of service workers and higher GDP/capita. The regions with the highest of both statistics are western Europe (France, UK, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland), North/Central America (US, Canada, Bahamas, Netherlands Antilles), Australia, and wealthy pockets of East Asia (Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore). Israel and Saudi Arabia also have high GDP and service workers unlike other countries in their region. Each of these places has been among the highest in the world since 1980. Luxembourg has the highest income per person, however, in 2007 their percentage of service workers dropped from 78% to 52% - perhaps they have innovated ways to tertiary activities with fewer people thus raising the average income per person. Many small Central/South American countries made brief rises in service workers in the 1990's but quickly fell by the year 2000. I also think it's interesting that Hong Kong and Macao are exceedingly different than China as a whole - China is largely manufacturing but those two areas are quite service-centered.
Logically, those countries that are more developed with higher percentages of service type jobs have lower percentages of agricultural jobs. Thus, generally, the countries with higher percentages of agricultural workers are those with lower GDPs. Regions with lower income per person and higher percent workers involved in agriculture include: East/Central Asia (Georgia, Moldova, Philippines, Thailand, Azerbaijan), South Asia (Pakistan, Sri Lanka), and South America- not overly low development (Paraguay, Panama, Columbia). Many African countries (Tanzania, Madagascar, Sierra Leone) had many agricultural workers and low GDPs up until 2005 when they dropped off the graph. There really aren't any true outliers for these factors which I think is kind of weird.
Many countries that have lots of agricultural workers consist of many small subsistence farming pockets. Not much capital is being produced in these countries which explains the low GDPs. On the other hand, more economically developed countries can rely on less developed countries for basic goods; they don't have to produce their own goods so they can focus on tertiary services.
