Measuring Development and Transition Model Test Flashcards
What is GNI?
The value of goods and services and the income earned from investments overseas.
What is birth rate?
The number of births in a year per 1000 of the total population.
What is death rate?
The number of deaths in a year per 1000 of the total population.
What is infant mortality?
The average number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age, per 1000 live births, per year.
What is life expectancy?
The average number of years a person might be expected to live.
What is Human Development Index?
A composite measure which considers life expectancy, GNI and education index to give a value between 0 and 1 being the most developed.
Two problems of social and economic measures of development
.Data could be out of date or hard to collect
.Using only one measure can be misleading because it is an average for a country
Two reasons why birth rates are high in LICs
Limited access to contraception and high rates of infant mortality.
Two reasons death rate falls
.Access to clean waters
.Better medical care
Which rate falls in stage 2?
.Death rate
What happens in stage 3?
Death rates fall more slowly and birth rate begins to fall
What happens to death rate in stage 5?
Death rate slightly higher than birth rate in stage 5 leading to reduction in population growth.
What are birth and death rates like in stage 1?
Both high.
