Topic 2

Question 1

Subjective Wellbeing

Answer 1

How a person/people assess the wellbeing of their country; an opinionated view.

Question 2

Crude Birth Rates

Answer 2

Amount of births per 1000 people in a population

Question 2

Objective Wellbeing

Answer 2

Assessed through quantifiable/measured factors (i.e. MMR (Maternal Mortality Rates), TFR (Total Fertility Rates), CDR (Crude Death Rates).)

Question 3

Crude Death Rates

Answer 3

Number of deaths per 1000 people in a year in a population

Question 4

Life Expectancy

Answer 4

Average number of years a person is expected to live from birth.

Question 5

Infant Mortality Rates

Answer 5

Number of deaths of children less than one year of age per 1000 live births.

Question 6

Literacy Rates

Answer 6

Percentage of population of a given age group that can read and write/are literate.

Question 7

GDP per capita

Answer 7

Gross Domestic Product per capita, value of goods and services a country produces, divided by number of people living there.

Question 8

Total Fertility Rates

Answer 8

Otherwise known as replacement rate, represents average number of births needed to replace the number of who have died in a population within a year.

Question 9

HDI

Answer 9

Human Development Index, combination of three different factors that affect human wellbeing (i.e. Life Expectancy, Literacy Rates, and GDP)

Question 10

LEDCS

Answer 10

Less Economically Developed Countries (i.e. Philippines, Jamaica)

Question 11

MEDCS

Answer 11

More Economically Developed Countries (i.e. Britain, USA)

Question 12

North South Divide

Answer 12

Historical assessment of rich and poor countries, regarding stereotypes that North was richer, South was poorer.

Can also be used to separate countries/regions when assessing factors of Human Wellbeing within a country.

Question 13

Long- and Short-term impacts of Conflict

Answer 13

Long: tensions between countries, History, affected trade, financial loss, peace treaties, restrictions in certain areas (politically, socially etc), lower population, poverty.

Short: destruction of infrastructure, major deaths happening, War, shortage of resources.

Question 14

Population Pyramids

Answer 14

Predictors of how/what a population would look like in the future.

Question 15

Types of Population Pyramids & Effects

Answer 15

Triangle: high birth rates, low life expectancy, high death rates, younger population (more younger generations), lower older dependents.

Barrel/Beehive: low birth rates, moderate birth rates, lower number of younger dependents, higher number of older dependents, more working population.

Rectangle: Stable numbers in all aspects, no outliers, even in number of dependents in each age group.

Question 16

DTM

Answer 16

Demographic Transition Model, attempts to explain the progress of a country’s wellbeing through five different stages from agricultural society to urbanization.

Question 17

Natural Increase

Answer 17

Number of births exceeding number of deaths within a population.

Question 18

Natural Decrease

Answer 18

Number of deaths exceeding number of births within a population.

Question 19

DTM Stages - Stage 1

Answer 19

High Stationary; high birth rates, high death rates, slow natural increase.

Question 20

DTM Stages - Stage 2

Answer 20

Early Expanding; high birth rates, rapid decrease of death rates, rapid natural increase.

Question 21

DTM Stages - Stage 3

Answer 21

Late Expanding; falling birth rates, death rates falling slowly, natural increase slows down.

Question 22

DTM Stages - Stage 4

Answer 22

Low Stationary; low birth rates, low death rates, slow natural increase

Question 23

DTM Stages - Stage 5

Answer 23

Declining; very low birth rates, low death rates, slow natural decrease.