Development 🏚💵

Question 1

What is DEVELOPMENT?

Answer 1

DEVELOPMENT is a process of change and growth in a place; it should be for the better (but it is not always). It is about improving the quality of life for people

Question 2

How do we determine how DEVELOPED a country is?

Answer 2

To determine how DEVELOPED a country is, we use DEVELOPMENT indicators

Question 3

What is GDP and what type of inductor is it?

Answer 3

GDP is the total value of goods and services a country produces a year (it is given in US dollars $). GDP is an economic indicator because it refers the money and wealth

Question 4

What are the 2 two types of DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS we can use?

Answer 4

> Social (people)

> Economic (money)

Question 5

What is GDP PER CAPITA?

Answer 5

GDP PER CAPITA is what each person in the country would earn if this amount were shared out equally

Question 6

Which country has the highest GDP PER CAPITA?

Answer 6

Qatar > $132,000 🇶🇦

Question 7

Which country has the lowest GDP PER CAPITA?

Answer 7

Somalia > $400 🇸🇴

Question 8

As a country DEVELOPS…

Answer 8

… it produces more goods and services. So the country’s GDP PER CAPITA rises over the years

Question 9

What is wrong with only looking at GDP/ GDP PER CAPITA when thinking about DEVELOPMENT?

Answer 9

It does not tell us whether a country provides clean safe water, good health care or any other things such as those. So we need SOCIAL indicators too, such as life expectancy

Question 10

Give 7 examples of SOCIAL indicators:

Answer 10

> Life expectancy
> Adult literacy rate
> Infant mortality
> Number of doctors per thousand people
> Access to clean safe water
> Enrolment in primary school
> Daily calorie consumption

Question 11

What is meant by ‘infant mortality rate’?

Answer 11

The number of babies who die before their first birthday in any given year (per 1000)