Rostow Model

Match the transport types to the correct stage in the Rostow Model

• Stage 3: Take-off

• Motorbike

• Stage 1: Traditional Society

• Walking

• Stage 2: Pre-conditions for take-off

• Bicycle

• Stage 4: Drive to maturity

• Car

• Stage 5: High Mass Consumption

• Buses and some cars

Match the job types to the correct stage in the Rostow Model

• Stage 3: Take-off

• Offices, shops and call centres

• Stage 4: Drive to maturity

• Mining

• Stage 1: Traditional Society

• Factories

• Stage 5: High Mass Consumption

• ICT, media and finance

• Stage 2: Pre-conditions for take-off

• Farming and fishing

Match the housing types to the correct stage in the Rostow Model

• Stage 5: High Mass Consumption

• Nearly everyone lives in urban areas in modern buildings

• Stage 3: Take-off

• Most people live in urban areas with improving quality of living

• Stage 1: Traditional Society

• Urbanisation occurs - growth of cities with industrialisation

• Stage 4: Drive to maturity

• People begin to afford to pay others to build for them in rural areas

• Stage 2: Pre-conditions for take-off

• Houses are built by the people who live in them mainly in rural areas

Match the positives to the correct stage in the Rostow Model

• Stage 1: Traditional Society

• People live in close communities and celebrate their traditional culture

• Stage 5: High Mass Consumption

• People start to earn money from their work so poverty begins to reduce

• Stage 3: Take-off

• Families can afford to send their children to school rather than out to work

• Stage 2: Pre-conditions for take-off

• Almost everyone is wealthy and can afford luxuries including holidays

• Stage 4: Drive to maturity

• Technology is ised to improve all parts of society

Match the negatives to the correct stage in the Rostow Model

• Stage 2: Pre-conditions for take-off

• Factories are causing high levels of pollution

• Stage 3: Take-off

• Growing divides between rich and poor

• Stage 1: Traditional Society

• Low life expectancy as people rely on their crops for food

• Stage 4: Drive to maturity

• Agriculture is low paid so change is slow

• Stage 5: High Mass Consumption

• High levels of consumption lead to obsity and resource depletion

Match the countries to the correct stage in the Rostow Model

• Stage 2: Pre-conditions for take-off

• Tuvalu

• Stage 1: Traditional Society

• Russia

• Stage 4: Drive to maturity

• Nicaragua

• Stage 3: Take-off

• USA

• Stage 5: High Mass Consumption

• Turkey