Paper 2 Section B - The Changing Economic World

Question 1

What is Gross National Income (GNI)?

Answer 1

Total value of goods and services provided by a country plus money earned from and paid to other countries

the total amount of money that a country’s population earns in a yea

Question 2

What are the factors of development?

Answer 2

Economic - money & jobs

Social - education, healthcare, infrastructure, accessibility to water

Political - stable government, civil war

Environmental - natural hazards & climate

Question 3

What is the development gap?

Answer 3

The difference in standards of living between the world’s richest and poorest countries.

Question 4

What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?

Answer 4

A measure of a country’s development, that gives a number between zero (low development) and one (high development).

Question 5

What are the factors of the Human Development Index (HDI)?

Answer 5

Gross national income (GNI)
Birth rate
Death rate
Infant mortality rate
Life expectancy
People per doctor
Literacy rate
% of people with access to clean water

Question 6

What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?

Answer 6

An example of how populations change over time.

Question 7

What are population pyramids/structures?

Answer 7

Graphs which show the percentage or number of males and females in each age group.