Like poor people struggling to better their lives, agriculture-based countries. countries (called agrarian economies) strive to become advanced countries. Modernization is a term used to denote this process. Basically, it is the third world countries Asia, America Africa that are hoping to become rich industrialized of the United States countries of Western Europe nations like Modernization is not only a process but also an ideology of change national T i.e. in change. communication, health care, business g legislation, work structure, attitudes mass striving on take place. It is the banking and myriad and economic health. for the goals of national independence, social eguality Various indicators of development are used Gross national product(GNP per capita is a popular for measuring economic nurogress. GNP is deriv 13 by dividing the value in monetary terms of all goods and services produced 15 the a by total goes up, it indicates that the in year. Thus, if the GNP is economy has progressed. However, it has its weaknesses, one of which 16 failure show the inequities in a nation. The GNPis fairly reliable for countries 17, where most of the people have more r less the same level of income. However, a ountry's rich can be very rich and the poor close to starving, and yet its GNP can look quite respectable Per capita income, that is the average income per person, is usually also taken into account, but even here like GNP it may not show the big between 22 the rich and the poor. alination wants to become a modern state il has to industrialize. Many 24 farmers will have to go to work in factories before significant economic growth will happen. Otherwise, many of them will remain uapped in a cycle of poverty The two best indicators of industrialization are the figures on how much energy a country consumes High consumption of these two commodities indicates that a country is in a high stage of industrialization, such as Japan Social development is probably the most important aspect of moderniza After all, if the aim is lo modernize, it should be for the betterment of society. 31 Thus, social development indicators, such as the number of doctors. teachers, books, cars and televisions per 1000 people, are also important