EQ1 Statistics2

Question 1

Sharia Law: Saudi Arabia GDP ranking and Gender Equality ranking

Answer 1

35th GDP (incsd), 127th Gender Equality Index

Question 2

Sharia Law: Afghanistan GDP per cap ranking, ranking Gender Equality Index

Answer 2

168th ranked, 146th ranked Gender Equality (last one)

Question 3

Evo Morales: Bolivia and Ecuador GDP ranking

Answer 3

Bolivia: 120th, Ecuador: 102nd

Question 4

Country with a high HPI score and one with a low one

Answer 4

High: Costa RIca (2.1), Low: USA (37.4)

Question 5

Education: 2013 UN estimated …. Million children of primary school age not attending school, most of them girls

Answer 5

59

Question 6

% of countries having equal gender access to primary school in 2015, % of them access to secondary school

Answer 6

69%, 48%

Question 7

In the Sahel region, how many children (6-11 year olds) are out of school

Answer 7

30 million (twice as many boys than girls never receiving an education)

Question 8

Malaria stats death in children and maternal mortality

Answer 8

• biggest cause of death for children under 5, causing around 8,000 deaths a year
• 20% maternal mortality linked to malaria

Question 9

HIV/AIDS stats on adult prevalence, infections and AIDS related deaths (2020) and declining prevalence

Answer 9

• 11.1% adult HIV prevalence
• 69,000 new infections
• 24,000 AIDS related deaths
• declining prevalence (19% drop btwn 2003-2015) due to improving access to treatment

Question 10

Zambia:
- prevalence of HIV Rural vs urban
- population rural vs urban
- access to improved sanitation rural vs urban

Answer 10

• 20% rural, 10% urban
• 51.3% rural, 41.8% urban
  35.7% rural, 44.4% urban

Question 11

Zambia and sustainable development goals: stats on maternal mortality, infant mortality and births

Challenges

Answer 11

• infant mortality rate dropped by 36% 2007-2014
• maternal mortality declined from 398/100000 live births (2013) to 252/100000 in 2018
• births attended by health professionals incsd by 80% btwn 2015-2018

Challenges:
- new HIV infections 3.6 per 1000 in 2020

(Quite limited progress but still big challenges)

Question 12

Misisi compound in Lusaka:
- life expectancy
- when is malaria risk high
- top cause of mortality in children under 5
- attempts to address the problem

Answer 12

• 32 years
• more than 50% of children have lost at least one parent to HIV/AIDS
• summer
• diarrhoea
• cholera is high due to lack of water, exacerbated by flooding due to rainfall and rubbish blocking drainage channels
• Ngwenya dam was built, water is not fit for consumption but used for washing
• ‘Urban renewal’ scheme 2015 to demolish many homes and construct 12,500 modern homes (help address envtal water pollution)

Question 13

Polio case study

Question 14

TB case study

Question 15

Contrast between Japan and Russia:
- life expectancy
- adult obesity
- tobacco use
- % of GDP spent on healthcare
- GINI coefficient
- diet/alcoholism

Answer 15

Japan:
- 84.6 years
- 4.3% adult obesity
- 20.1% tobacco use
- 10.7% of GDP spent on healthcare
- well balanced, high protein low fat diet

Russia:
- 71.3 years
- 23.1% adult obesity rate
- 26.8% tobacco use
- 5.6% of GDP spent on healthcare
High rates of alcoholism