Development indicators

Question 1

Average number of years you are expected to live in a country.

Answer 1

Life expectancy

Question 2

Measures of inequality

Answer 2

Show how equally wealth is shared among the population. Looks at the %
GDP owned by the 10% wealthiest and poorest.

Question 3

Human development index (HDI)

Answer 3

UN’s alternative method for measuring development. It uses PPP, literacy
rates, length of schooling and life expectancy to calculate a figure
between 0 and 1 (1 is highest)

Question 4

Subsistence farmers

Answer 4

UN’s alternative method for measuring development. It uses PPP, literacy
rates, length of schooling and life expectancy to calculate a figure
between 0 and 1 (1 is highest)

Question 5

% of the population who earn less than $1.25 a day (the minimum required
to meet basic needs).

Answer 5

Population below poverty line

Question 6

Average income of a country divided by its population

Answer 6

Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP)

Question 7

Access to safe drinking water

Answer 7

Percentage of the population with access to piped water within 1km.

Question 8

Literacy rates

Answer 8

% of the population aged 15 and above who can read and write

Question 9

Number of births per 1000 people per year in a country.

Answer 9

Birth rate

Question 10

Death rate

Answer 10

Number of deaths per 1000 people per year in a country.

Question 11

This adjusts GDP in a country to take into account how much the money 
will buy (the cost of living).

Answer 11

Purchasing Power Parity

Question 12

Fertility rate

Answer 12

Average number of births per woman in a country.

Question 13

Number of mothers per 100 000 who die in childbirth.

Answer 13

Maternal morality

Question 14

Infant morality

Answer 14

Number of children per 1000 who die before their 1st

birthday.

Question 15

Uses a scale from 0 (honest) to 10 (very corrupt). Corrupt countries are
more likely to spend invested money/aid on purchasing weapons or bribing
officials.

Answer 15

Corruption perceptions index

Question 16

Gina coefficient

Answer 16

Measures the extent to which the distribution of income is unequal in a
country and how this changes over time. It is a ration between 0 and 1. 0 is
completely equal and 1 means only 1 person has all the wealth

Question 17

Population pyramid

Answer 17

Population structure means the ‘make up’ or composition of a population.

Question 18

Any five equal groups into which a population can be divided

Answer 18

Quintiles

Question 19

Urbanisation

Answer 19

The movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities

Question 20

Spatial variation

Answer 20

The way that something changes pr varies over an area on the earths surface in the atmosphere or sea

Question 21

The multiplier effect

Answer 21

Spin offs from one growing business allowing other businesses to grow as well

Question 22

TNCs transnational corporations

Answer 22

A firm that owns or controls productive operations in more than one country through foreign direct investment.