Intro to HDI Package

World Issues – Unit 2: Development

Key Definitions:
Drag the definition into the table next to the matching term. (Per capita means per person)
Add other definitions to the table as the lesson progresses.
Term
Definition
GDP per capita (PPP)
Gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates is the sum value of all goods and services produced within a country valued at prices prevailing in the United States in the year noted.

GNP (Gross National Product)
The total amount of income a country makes outside of its country, as well as between its country and others
Infant Mortality Rate
The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year
Life Expectancy
The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future

Literacy Rate
The ability to read and write at a specified age

MEDC
More economically developed country
LEDC
Less economically developed country
NIC
Newly Industrialized Country

Definitions:

Table of Indicators from the introductory Power Point

GDP Per cap
Literacy rate
Life expectancy
IMR
Child labour
Qatar
103,900
96.3%
78.24
6.6‰

Switzerland
46,200
99%
82.28
3.8‰

Canada
43,400
99%
81.57
4.78‰

Brunei
55,300
95.4%
76.57
10.81‰

Taiwan
39,400
96.1%
79.71
4.55‰

Belgium
38,500
99%
79.78
4.23‰

Greenland
37,400
100%
71.54
9.63‰

United Kingdom
37,500
99%
80.29
4.5‰

Russia
18,000
99.7%
69.85
7.19‰

Botswana
17,100
85.1%
54.47
9.9‰
9%
Saudi Arabia
31,800
87.2%
74.58
15.08‰

Cuba
10,200
99.8%
78.05
4.76‰

China
9,300
95.1%
74.99
15.2‰

Libya
12,300
89.5%
75.83
12.26‰

Haiti
1,300
48.7%
62.85
50.92‰
21%
Nigeria
2,800
61.3%
52.46
72.97‰
29%

Key Questions
Notes from class
What is development?

What types of development are there?