THE POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA

We are going to talk about Australia, we have chosen this country because english is the most spoken language there and has an ineresting history although it is well knowing that Australia was one of the last regions around the world wich was discovered.

The fullname of the country is Commonwealth of Autralia and it is located in the Southern Hemisphere surrounded by the Indian and Pacific ocean; and in the continent of Oceania, these facts had leaded to the most of the people to recognize Autralia as the “island-continent” by the way it is considered as the smallest and the lowest-lying human-inhabited continent on the Earth just before Antarctica.

Specifically I will talk about demographics and relevant economics data. In terms of the area, this is the 6th biggest country in the world with 7687000 km² and 21.5 million people living there until 2010 which places in the number 54 of the world ranking. This country has three dependences, these are:

The Christmas Island, The Cocos Keeling Islands and the Norfolk Island.

Flag the Territory of Christmas Island

Flag Of The Territory of Cocos Keeling Islands

Flag Of The Territory of Norfolk Island

The population density of Australia is three people per square kilometer which places in the world ranking 232^nd place. The life expectancy is about 82 years and the population grows 1.06% per year, this is related with the literacy fraction which is of the 99%.

This country is made up of an ethnic mix conformed mostly by white people in a 92%, seven percent from Asia and only the one percent are Aboriginal.

The most spoken language in Autralia is English which represents the 88%, in contrast, the Australian Sign Language is just spoken only in a 0.065%, other important languages are the Italian and Greek but these are not competitors of English; becasuse represent just the 1.5% and 1.2% respectively. This is clearly heritage of the British occupation.

Japan

Why Japan???

Japan is a very complicated Country full of mystisicim and with a very ancient history... One of the oldest countries thath still keeps their own native culture and traditions.

But even Japan has been afected by the influence of the Western countries, mostly the United States.

Obviously the official language of Japan is the Japanesse, However as a consequence of globalization, mixture of culures and overall the progress of communication tecnologies such as computers, cellphones and specially the Internet, English became a necessity for their way of life, adding that, to the fact that USA is one of the most powerfull economies in the world.

Japan has adopted English as a secong language, even if it's not official (very similar to what's happening in Mexico, that is the very same reasson for us to study English, isn't it???).

But Japanese not only speak English, they've adopted a lot of words in English and introduce them into their every day vocabulary since they can vistually reproduce any word or sentence in English to their own alphabet. As matter of fact, Japanese has three alphabets:

• Hiragana, wich is entierly Japanesse and for words born in Japan.
• the Kanji alphabet, that was an adaptation from the chinese alphabet.
• Katakana, that is exclusive for foreigns words, mostly in English.

VERY GOOD INTRODUCTION TO AUSTRALIA, IT CAUGHT MY EYE. WAITING FOR THE NEXT POST.

AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRIES FOR ITS ECONOMY; ENGLAND IS A COUNTRY THAT SETS TRENDS AS IN SPORTS, AND MUSIC FOR EXAMPLE. ONE CAN SEE THAT WITH ALL THE SPORTS THAT ARE A HERITAGE FROM ENGLAND.

IT IS INTERESTING TO READ ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS. YOU GAVE US A CLEAR AND COMPLETE VIEW OF INDIA'S TYPE OF GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMY

Indian Government

The Government of India is officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government. It was established by the Constitution of India.

The government is integrated by three branches: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.

The executive branch: The President is the head of State and she exercises her power directly or through officers subordinate to him. The president is Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, she is the first woman to have been elected.



The President of India is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government and exercises most of executive functions. The prime minister was selected by the President. The executive is the president, vice president and the Council of Ministers headed by the prime minister. In the Indian parliamentary system, executive power is subordinate to the legislature, the Prime Minister and his Council are supervised directly by the parliament.




The Legislative branch or the Parliament, it is the supreme legislative body of a country. Parliament is formed by the President and the two Houses: Lok Sabha (House of the People) and Rajya Sabha (Council of States).

Lok Sabha: It is the body of representatives of the people. Its members are directly elected, normally once in every five years by the adult population who are eligible to vote. The present membership of Lok Sabha is 545. The number is divided among the different States and Union Territories.



Rajya Sabha: It has no more than 250 members. Members of Rajya Sabha are not elected by the Legislative Assemblies of the various States. No member of Rajya Sabha can be under 30 years of age. Twelve of Rajya Sabha members are nominated by the President from persons who have earned distinction in the fields of literature, art, science and social service. Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and there are at present 245 members.



The main function of both the Houses is to make laws. The principal Union subjects are Defence, Foreign Affairs, Railways, Transport and Communications, Currency and Coinage, Banking, Customs and Excise Duties.

The Judicial branch is formed by the Supreme Court, 21 High Courts, and numerous civil, criminal and family courts at the district level.

India´s Economy

India is a country that is currently part of the BRIC block, therefore it can become one of the most economically important countries in the future.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the economy of India had followed socialist tendencies. The economy was paralyzed by rules and regulations imposed by the government, protectionism and public property, which led to widespread corruption and slow economic growth. It was in 1991 when the national economy became a market economy.