Year 9 Patterns of Development

A measure of how wealthy a country is. Usually measured using GNI and/or GDP per capita.

• Social development

• Economic development

• Life expectancy

• Literacy rate

A measure of the quality of life of people living in a given place. This may include indicators of wealth like GDP, but also take into account other indicators such as life expectancy and literacy rates.

• Social development

• Economic development

• Birth rate

• Life expectancy

Number of adult who can read and write in every 100 people.

• GDP per capita

• People per doctor

• primary employment

• Literacy rate

The total wealth of a country divided by the population

• Life expectency

• Birth rate

• GDP per capita

• literacy rate

The average number of years a person can expect to live to.

• GDP per capita

• Literacy rate

• Life Expectency

• Birth rate

Number of kilocalories (Kcals) each person in the country eats per day

• Birth rate

• Calorie intake

• Life expeetency

• GDP per capita

A composite index used to measure economic and social development. This index ranks countries in order of most to least developed.

• The Economic Development index (EDI)

• The Human Development Index (HDI)

• The Social Development Index (SDI)

• The Gender Inequality Index (GII)

The majority of countries ranking highly on the HDI are in Europe, Oceania and North America.

• True

• False

Most countries in Africa either low or rank low on the Human development Index. Botswana, Algeria and Libya are anomalies.

• True

• False

Saudi Arabia scores low on the Human Development Index

• True

• False