How is Israel a developed country?

Answer 1

The question is somewhat unclear ... we really can't quite tell exactly what the questioner

is getting at.

Is it asking "Is Israel a developed country ?", or "How did it get that way ?"

Israel is unquestionably a developed country. Its government is a representative

democracy in a part of the world where that's rare, and has not had a revolutionary

or military take-over in all its modern history. It has a thriving economy in spite of the

demands of its defense spending equal to 17% of its national budget, it has a world-class

system of public and private educational institutions, and it's a world leader in several

fields of medicine and technology.

Israel's Birth Rate is 3.9% above the world average, and its death rate is 36% below

the world average. Life expectancy at birth in Israel is 78.5 for males and 82.2 for females.

95.4% of the total population are literate (can read and write), including 93.6% of all

women. There is a doctor for every 266 residents, and a hospital bed for every 157.

Infant mortality was 3.9 per 1,000 live births in 2007.

There are 3 million telephone landlines (phone numbers) in Israel, plus 8.9 million

cellphone subscribers. There are 735 personal computers, and 222 broadband

internet subscribers, for every 1,000 people in the country.

Israel is roughly the same size as the state of Massachusetts ... within 1% .

It has 570 miles of railroads, and 11,100 miles of roads ... all paved. It has

1.7 million passenger cars, and 370,000 trucks and buses. Its national airline flew

11 billion passenger miles, and carried 897 million metric tons of cargo, in 2009.

40.8% of the total population is "economically active", and 49.6% of those are women.

Unemployment is 8.2% ... somewhat less than in the the US. Tourism and foreign direct

investment are large sources of economic activity.

The gross national per-capita income in 2009 was the equivalent of US$21,900.

Despite a topography that is largely desert, Israel produces and exports potatoes,

tomatoes, grapefruit, pomelos, and dates, and raises sheep and cattle on its sparse

arable and grazing land. Production of medical, measuring and testing equipment,

fabricated metal products, and food products in 2009 totaled US$4.5 billion. In 2009

the country produced 49.8 billion KwH of electrical energy, 413,000 metric tons of

lignite, 24,500 barrels of crude oil, 10.9 million metric tons of petroleum products

from imported oil, and 2.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

Israel imports machinery and apparatus, raw diamonds, chemical products, crude oil,

and cars, from Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, and the US, among others.

Israel exports machinery and apparatus, rough and finished diamonds, medicine,

professional and scientific equipment, to Belgium, Germany, HongKong, the UK,

and the US, among others.

Israel is a developed country.

Answer 2

Israel is fully developed. Come visit and see for yourself.

• Israel has the highest standard of living in the Middle East.
  
• Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, well above that of the U.S.
  
• Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per capita in the world.
  
• Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation, by a large margin (109 per 10,000 people), as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
  
• The 2013 "Freedom in the World" annual survey, ranked Israel as the Middle East and North Africa's only free country.
• Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system gained worldwide acclaim after intercepting hundreds of rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip.
  
• Israel is one of the seven countries capable of launching satellites.
  
• Israel is considered one of the most advanced countries in Southwest Asia in economic and industrial development. It has the second-largest number of start-up companies in the world (after the United States), and the largest number of Nasdaq-listed companies outside North America.
  
• The Israeli economy was ranked as the world's most durable economy in the face of crises, and was also ranked first in the rate of research and development investments.
  
• Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds, right behind the US.
  
• Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
• Israel was ranked as the worldwide leader in its supply of skilled manpower.
  
• Israel's leading exports include electronics, software, computerized systems, communications technology, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, fruits, chemicals, military technology, and cut diamonds.
• Israel has one of the lowest external debts in the developed world.
  
• Israel is one of the world's leaders in solar energy industry and in water technology. In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
• Israel has led the world in stem-cell research papers per capita since 2000.
• Literacy in Israel is over 97%, and increasing.
  
• An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment.
  
• Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
• Israel's Givun imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. The camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and other disorders in the small intestine.
  
• Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with congestive heart failure.
  
• Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
  
• Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., about 70 in Japan, and 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
  
• The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
  
• Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
  
• The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
  
• Voice-mail technology was developed in Israel.
  
• Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only Research facilities outside the US in Israel.
  
• The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
  
• A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct; all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.
  
• An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity-generating plant, in Southern California's Mojave Desert.
  
• Cows in Israel produce the highest amounts of milk per animal in the world.
  
• Israel is one of the world's leading citrus-fruit producers and exporters.
  

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