Development Indicators

Question 1

Economic Indicators

Answer 1

Give information about the general wealth of a country. They measure things such as energy use, trade, income and industrial output.(GDP, income, import and export, trades)

Question 2

Social Indicators

Answer 2

Are about people and how they live, what they do and what quality of life they have. They measure things such as education, health care and housing.(adult literacy, life expectancy, people e per doctor, calorie intake)

Question 3

Cultural Indicators

Answer 3

Look at the effect of traditions, religions and way of life. They measure things such as different religious practises.

Question 4

Problems of deciding a country’s development based on one indicator

Answer 4

-Money is spread unevenly
-Indicators are averages, therefore they may hide inequalities within a country.
-Many indicators from certain countries are inaccurate.
-Some countries don’t want information about true conditions to be known.

Question 5

What is the HDI?

Answer 5

The HDI is an ‘Index’ – a combination of development data:
- Life expectancy at birth
- Education
- GNI per capita (average income)

Question 6

How does the HDI represent development more accurately?

Answer 6

It shows how money is used to benefit the population. Countries with high GNI might not necessarily have high HDI scores, due to inequalities within these countries.

Question 7

How to plot a graph?

Answer 7

Title
Correlation
Line of best fit
Start on zero
Go up the same amount each time