Measuring Developmet Flashcards
Name some economic indicators of development
Gross national product, GNP per capita, trade balance, energy consumption, primary employment
Name some social indicators of development
Birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, literacy rate, infant mortality rate, calories per person per day, people per doctor
Gross national product
The total of all money produced per year by a countries workers
GNP per capita (per person)
The GNP shared out equally among the people of a country.
Trade balance
The volume, value and type of imports no exports
Energy consumption
The amount of energy which each person in the country uses per year.
Primary employment
The % of people in the country employed in primary occupations.
Birth rate
The number of births per year per 1000 people
Death rate
The number of deaths per year per 1000 people
Life expectancy
The average number of years a person can expect to live.
Literacy rate
The number of adults who can read and write in every 100 people.
Infant mortality rate
The number of children per year out of every 1000 born alive that die be for they reach the age of one
Calories per person per day
The number of kilocalories each person in the country takes in each day
People per doctor
The number of patients divided by the number of doctors.
Give me the name of one country where it’s wealthy but not evenly distributed and how do you know this
Saudi Arabia, high gnp
