Questions
1 & 2 : Which is larger, Mali or the UK, and how much larger is it?
Mali is a much larger country than the UK. Mali is five times larger than
the UK. Mali is 1,240,192 square km while the UK is only 244,100 square kmQuestions 3, 4 & 5: How many people
live in Mali? How many people live in the UK? And how many more people live in one than
the other?
11.134 million people live in Mali – a lot of people – but far more live in
the UK: 58.144 million people! There are five times
as many people in the UK as there are in Mali. Can you think why people in Mali have so
much more space than those in the UK?
Question 6: If you were a boy in
Mali, for how many years could you expect to live?
Life expectancy for boys is 47 years. Does that seem very young to you? Why do you think
that boys' life expentancy in Mali might be low?
Question 7: If you were a girl in
Mali, for how many years could you expect to live?
Life expectancy for girls is 45 years even lower than for boys. Why do you think life
expectancy is lower for girls than for boys in Mali?
Question 8: If you were a boy in
the UK, for how many years could you expect to live?
Average life expectancy for a boy in the UK is 74 years. Why do you think life expectancy
is so much higher in the UK compared to Mali?
Question 9: If you were a girl in
the UK, for how many years could you expect to live?
Life expectancy for girls in the UK is 79 years. Why do you you think girls live so much
longer in the UK than in Mali, and why do they live longer than boys?
Question 10. How many babies die
for every 1000 born in the UK?
For every 1,000 babies born in the UK, 7 will die at birth or soon after. This is a very
low figure.
Question 11. How many babies die
for every 1000 born in Mali?
For every 1,000 babies born in Mali, 134 will die at birth or soon after, according to
1996 figures. What does this tell you about medical facilities in Mali?
Question 12. How many TV sets are
there per 1000 people in the UK?
In the UK we have about 450 TVs for every 1000 people – that’s about half a TV
set each! Half a TV set isn’t much good, but in a family of four people, there will
be 2 TVs. How many TVs are there in your house?
Question 12. How many TV sets are
there per 1000 people in Mali?
In Mali there are about 10 TVs for 1,000 people, so you would be sharing your TV with 100
other people!
We hope you found this quiz interesting,
and that it made you think about the differences and similarities between these two
countries. Keep the facts you have learned in mind; they may come in useful later!
- What other comparisons can you find?
- Which did you expect?
- Which surprised you most?
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