global variations in economic development and quality of life Flashcards
Factors that effect a country’s speed and level of development
political
social
economical
evironmental
the development gap describes
the different standards of living between the poor and rich
different ecomonic and social measures of development
gross national income; per head; birth; and death rates; infant mortality; life expentancy; people per doctor; literacy rates; access to safe water; human development index
economic indictors
these measure development on how rich/ poor a country is
birth rate
as a country develops, the less children that a woman would have as she will work more- more developed countries have less kids
death rates
it would decrease as a country develops, but it could increase if there is a high elderly population
infant mortality
countries healthcare- decrease as a country develops
life expentancy
it would increase if a country develops
people per doctor
doctors per person shows how much money a country invest in medical aid
literacy rates
it would increase as a country develops as they can invest in money in eduactions
access to safe water
better infrastructure - increase
human development index uses
life expentancy at birth
gni per head
number of years of education
why is development very difficult to measure
quality of life and standard of living are very different. a person’s standard of living is based on their income and can be easily be compared e.g. access to clean water and education. quality of life is your opinion.
why is development very difficult to measure - false image
saudi arabia is “rich” but has lots of inequlity when it comes to wealth
others propblems with hdi
data could be out of date
unreliable- child mortality can be unreported
they do not inculde informal ecomony
corrupt goverments e.g. North Korea
