1.1 Economic development

Question 1

Pre industrial economy

Answer 1

-Malwai - 70 primary, 20 secondary, 10 tertiary.

Agriculture 27% of GDP, 80% of employment - 50% of revenue from tobacco.
Manufacturing accounts for 11% of GDP
Service sector accounts for 52%, mainly tourism

Question 2

Industrial economy

Answer 2

-China primary 30, secondary 40, tertiary 30

Primary - 25% of workforce
Only 15% land cultivated
Industry 25% of workforce, 50% GDP
Exports electricity and machinery
Service sector accounts for 50% of workforce and 45% of GDP

Question 3

Post industrial economy

Answer 3

UK - primary <5, secondary 20, tertiary 70-80

Primary 1% of employment
Industry accounts for 18% of workforce
Service accounts for 81% of workforce
Services contribute 80% of GDP

Question 4

Highest GDP and lowest GDP

Answer 4

Highest: US, Switzerland, China, Germany, Japan

Lowest: Niger, Burundi, Mozambique, Malawi, Haiti

Question 5

Least developed (HDI)

Most corrupt

Answer 5

HDI - Bangladesh, Nepal, Angola, Senegal

Corrupt - South Sudan, Iraq, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Kazakhstan

Question 6

Happiest

Gender equality

Answer 6

Happy: Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, Iceland

Gender equality: Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden

Question 7

Birth rates

Answer 7

Kerala 1.82 fertility compared to 2.2 india
13.9 per 1000 to 17.4 per 1000

Monaco lowest BR + 4th highest GDP/capita

Negative:
Nigeria 47.3/1000 and poor

Ignores migration 5.3 migrants in Saudi Arabia

Question 8

GDP/capita

Answer 8

Positive:
USA - 19.5tn, Burundi 3.3bn

Negative:
East China - 15,000 West China 8000 - doesn’t account for inequality
-UK unpaid household work estimated at $1.24tn

Question 9

HDI

Answer 9

Norway - 0.95

Niger - 0.38

Saudi Arabia 0.85 - unequal

Question 10

Happy planet

Answer 10

Costa Rica 62.1 - HDI 0.49

US uses 5 planets and 122 in HPI - inefficient

Latin America performs best

Question 11

Literacy

Answer 11

Norway 100%, 5.2bn GDP

Malawi 62%, doesn’t account 90% in agriculture

• 2/3 of 800m illiterates are female - could be 17bn of GDP
• South Sudan literacy rate 34.5

Question 12

Gender equality

Answer 12

Switzerland - 0.25
Yemen - 0.795

Saudi Arabia 0.85 HDI yet most gender segregated in the world