Development Dynamics Flashcards
What is life expectancy?
The average number of years you are expected to live in a country.
What are measures of inequality?
Measures how equally the wealth of a country is shared among the population by looking at the GDP owned by the top 10% and the bottom 10%.
What is the HDI?
The Human Development Index is the UN’s alternative method for measuring development. It uses PPP, literacy rates, length of schooling and life expectancy to calculate a figure between 1 and 0.
What is the percentage of subsistence farmers?
The percentage of the population of a country who farm purely to live, produce food to feed themselves and farm as an occupation.
What is the percentage below the poverty line?
The percentage of a countries population who earn less than $1.25 a day (the minimum amount required to meet basic needs).
What is the GDP?
The Gross Domestic Product is the average wealth of the country as a whole each year.
What is the GDP per capita?
The overall wealth/average income of a country divided by its population to make an average amount per person for each country.
What is having access to clean drinking water?
This is the percentage of the population with access to piped water within 1KM.
What is a countries literacy rate?
This is the percentage of the population aged 15 and above with the ability to read and write.
What is the birth rate of a country?
This is the number of births per 1000 people per year in a country.
What is the death rate of a country?
This is the number of deaths per 1000 people per year in a country.
What is the PPP?
This adjusts the GDP in a country to take into account how much the money will buy (the cost of living).
What is the fertility rate?
This is the average number of births per woman in a country.
What is the maternal mortality rate?
This is the number of per 100000 who die in child birth.
What is the infant mortality rate?
This is the number of children per 1000 who die before their first birthday.
