Chapter 9 Key Issues 1 And 2 Flashcards
What is the HDI?
Human development index- recognizes a country’s level of development through economic, social and demographic factors.
What is development?
The process of improving material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
Who was the the HDI created by?
United Nations
What is the economic factor in HDI?
GDP per capita
What are the social factors of the HDI?
Literacy rate and amount of education
What is the demographic factor in HDI?
Life expectancy
What are the four economic indicators of development?
Gross domestic product per capita
Types of jobs
Productivity
Consumer goods
What is gross domestic product?
Value of total output of goods and services produced in a country, usually in a year.
GDP/total population=
Contribution made by the average individual towards generating a country’s wealth.
What are primary sector jobs?
Directly extract materials from earth through agriculture.
What are secondary sector jobs?
Manufacturers that process, transform, and assemble raw materials into useful products.
What are tertiary sector jobs?
Goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
What are quaternary sector jobs?
Processing and finding out information
What is productivity?
The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.
How is productivity measured?
Value added per capita
What is value added per capita?
Gross value of product minus the costs of raw material and energy.
What are especially important goods and services related to in MDCs?
Transportation and communication
What are two social indicators of development?
Education and literacy
Health and welfare
What are two ways that education and literacy tested?
Student teacher ratio
Literacy rate
What are the four demographic indicators of development?
Life expectancy
Infant mortality rate
Natural increase rate
Crude birth rate
How many major cultural regions are there? How many are more developed?
9
2
What are the three other distinctive areas that are not major cultural regions?
Russia
Japan
Oceania
What is the north-south split?
Most MDCs are north of 30 degrees north latitude, and most LDCs are south.
What is the HDI of North America?
0.95