Different ways of measuring wellbeing Flashcards
South Sudan:
- Birth Rate
- Death Rate
- Life expectancy
- Fertility rate
- Infant mortality rate
- Maternal mortality rate
- GDP per capita
- HDI
- Median age
- Birth Rate
- 29
- Death Rate
- 10.2
- Life expectancy
- 59 years
- Fertility rate
- 5.2
- Infant mortality rate
- 62
- Maternal mortality rate
- 1,222 per 100,000
- Worst in the world
- GDP per capita
- US 1,119
- HDI
- Very low
- Lowest in the world
- Median age
- 19 years old
- A very young population
China:
- Birth Rate
- Death Rate
- Life expectancy
- Fertility rate
- Infant mortality rate
- Maternal mortality rate
- GDP per capita
- HDI
- Median age
- Birth rate
- 8
- Death rate
- 7
- Life expectancy
- 78 years
- Fertility rate
- 1.45
- Infant mortality rate
- 6.5
- Maternal mortality rate
- 23 per 100,000
- GDP per capita
- $17,000
- HDI
- High
- Median age
- 38 years
Different ways of measuring wellbeing
- Life expectancy
- Birth rate
- Death rate
- Fertility rate
- Infant mortality rate
What is qualitative data?
Observational indictors
What is quantitative data?
Numerical evidence
MEDC (More Economically
Developed Country)
A strong economy that has good living standards
LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country)
A weak economy that has lower income and poorer development of infrastructure
LDC (Least Developed Country)
incredibly hard to get sustainable development
GDP per capita
Total GDP divided by the population of a country
HDI (Human Development Index)
Measures a country’s standard of living
Wellbeing
Literacy Rate
The percentage of the population, who are 15 years and older, that can write
infant mortality rate
The number of annual deaths of infants under age 1 per 1,000 live births
Child Mortality Rates
The number of annual deaths of children aged under 5 per 1,000 live births
Maternal Mortality Rate
The number of annual deaths of women per 100,000 births during the same period
Birth rate
The number of annual births per 1,000 in the total population
