Global Health and Human Development SAC 4.1

Question 1

what is One of the main ways to group countries

Answer 1

classify them as either developed or developing

Question 2

define developed countries

Answer 2

were considered to have a high level of economic development, including a range of industries, trading on the global market and high average incomes.

Question 3

define developing countries

Answer 3

had a low level of economic development and relied largely on primary production and subsistence faming to provide food for themselves and their family

Question 4

example of high income countries

Answer 4

Australia, Canada, USA, Greece

Question 5

example of middle income countries

Answer 5

China, Indonesia, Fiji, turkey

Question 6

example of low income countries

Answer 6

Afghanistan, Chad, South sudden

Question 7

A system was developed by the World Bank and uses

Answer 7

a country’s Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, or average income, to classify countries into one of the three main groups

uses average incomes for each country and therefore does not acknowledge the variations that are experienced within any one country or between two countries in the same group

Question 8

Gross National Income (GNI)

Answer 8

the total value of goods and services a country’s citizens produce, including the value if income earner by citizens who mat be working in an overseas country

Question 9

Gross Domestic Products (GDP)

Answer 9

a measure that reflects the economic state of a country; the value of all goods and services produced in a country in a 12 month period