Measuring uneven development

• What is development in the context of a country?

  Development is when a country is improving.
• What does development generally mean for the people living in a country?

  It means that life gets better for the people living there.
• What are some approaches to measuring development?

  Wealth, level of industrialization, and use of technology.
• What does economic development refer to?

  Progress in economic growth, such as how wealthy a country is.
• What does social development refer to?

  Improvement in people's standard of living, such as better health and more clean water.
• What does political development involve?

  Having a stable political system with institutions that can meet the needs of society.
• What are some measures of development?

  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
  • GDP per head
  • Gross National Product (GNP)
  • GNP per head
  • Birth rate
  • Death rate
  • Infant mortality rate
  • Doctors per 1000 of population
  • Internet users
  • Literacy rate
  • Access to safe water
  • Life expectancy
  • Human Development Index (HDI)
  • Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
• Why is development hard to measure?

  Because it includes many different factors.
• What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?

  The total value of goods and services a country produces in a year.
• How is GDP often expressed?

  In US dollars.
• What is GDP per head?

  GDP divided by the population of a country.
• What does GNP stand for?

  Gross National Product.
• What does GNP include?

  The total value of goods and services produced by a country, including income from overseas.
• What is the birth rate?

  The number of live births born per thousand of the population per year.
• What is the death rate?

  The number of deaths per thousand of the population per year.
• What is the infant mortality rate?

  The number of babies who die under 1 year old per thousand babies born.
• What does "doctors per 1000 of population" measure?

  The number of working doctors per thousand of the population.
• What does the Internet users (ITU) measure?

  The number of people who have used the internet in the last year per 100 people.
• What does the literacy rate measure?

  The percentage of adults who can read and write.
• What does access to safe water measure?

  The percentage of people who can get clean drinking water.
• What does life expectancy measure?

  The average age that a person can expect to live to.
• What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?

  A number calculated using life expectancy, education level, and income per head.
• What is the range of HDI values?

  Between 0 (least developed) and 1 (most developed).
• What does the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) measure?

  The level of corruption believed to exist in the public sector on a scale of 1-100.
• Why can single indicators be misleading?

  Because some aspects develop before others, making a country seem more developed than it actually is.
• What is a composite indicator of development?

  A measure that uses more than one indicator to assess development.
• What are Higher Income Countries (HICs)?

  Countries with a high level of wealth, such as the UK, USA, Canada, and France.
• What are Lower Income Countries (LICs)?

  The poorest countries in the world with a very low GNI per head.
• What are Newly Emerging Economies (NEEs)?

  Countries that are rapidly getting richer as their economies shift from primary to secondary industry.
• Why can GNI per head be misleading?

  Because it is an average and does not show variations within the country.
• What factors are considered in classifying countries based on human development?

  Measures like birth rates, death rates, and HDI score.
• What is the HDI score of Chad in 2014?

  0.392
• What is the fertility rate in the UK?

  1. 9
• What is the birth rate in India?

  19.3 per 1000.
• What is the maternal mortality rate in Chad?

  856 per 100,000 pregnancy-related problems.
• What is the infant mortality rate in the UK?

  1. 3 per 1000 live births.
• What are the different classifications of countries based on development?

  Higher Income Countries (HICs), Lower Income Countries (LICs), and Newly Emerging Economies (NEEs).
• What are alternative names for Higher Income Countries (HICs)?

  Advanced countries (ACs) or developed countries.
• How do the classifications of countries differ based on development?

  Some countries may be categorized differently depending on the classification system used.