geography- population

• Development is any change or advantage of standard of living in a country
• Developing country

  Low standard of living (poorer e.g chad)
• Developed country

  High standard of living (richer e.g japan)
• Economic indicators is a measurement to do with the wealth within a country
• Social indicators are to do with the people in a country
• Problems with using only one indicator is that is doesn't provide enough information on a persons quality of life.

  Example would be being well fed doesn't equal how well educated they are
• Explain how literacy rates can show the level of development in a country?

  In developing country the rates will be lower than a developed country. This would show not many people know how to read and write and that there is little schools
• Explain how life expectancy can show the level of development in a country?

  In developed countries the rates would be higher than developed countries. This shows that developed countries have access to better healthcare and have enough food and water to offer
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the amount of money a country makes in a year
• In a developed country, people tend to work in industries like education, IT, and admin or customer services, which are well paid and create a richer economy.
• In a developing country, people tend to work in primary or secondary industries like mining or farming.
• The number of people per doctor provides information on the healthcare system in the country and the amount of people to one doctor.
• If the number of people per doctor is low, it indicates a good healthcare system with more doctors available to help people.
• The percentage of people that can read and write gives information on the education in a country.
• If the percentage of people that can read or write is low, it indicates a poor education system and lacking schools and teachers, indicating the country lacks funding to provide schools and education.
• The deaths per 1,000 people per year provide information of the deaths and indicate the country has good access to healthcare and medicine if the number is low.
• The percentage of people in agriculture gives information of people in farming and indicates a low figure shows that people work in other services typical in developed countries like services sector, IT or healthcare.
• Higher paid job opportunities are typically found in developed countries.
• The births per 1,000 people provide information on family planning and access to contraception, with a high figure indicating a lack of family planning and access to contraception.
• A low births per 1,000 people figure indicates that woman are more career focused in the country.
• Number of births per 1,000 woman per year is a development indicator that shows the level of development in a country.
• In a developing country like Mozambique, high birth rates are due to a lack of access to contraception.
• In a developed country like the United States, more women are career focused, leading to a low birth rate.
• Average income per person is a development indicator that shows the standard of living in a country.
• In a developed country like the United States, the income will be high due to access to job opportunities like Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
• In developing countries like Chad, people don't have good access to education to gain skills for employment.
• Disadvantages of using a single development indicator like Gross National Product (GNP) are that it doesn't consider informal economies which are very important in less developed countries.
• Disadvantages of using a single development indicator like Literacy rate are that it doesn't show whether this is due to lack of schools or the fact children are put to work.
• Disadvantages of using a single development indicator like Birth rate can be affected by population policies like China's one child policy.
• Development indicators include; life expectancy, birth rate, infant mortality rate, population growth, population per doctor, percentage of children going to school, and percentage of people in agriculture.
• Calories consumed per person a day is a development indicator that shows the dietary intake of a population.
• Percentage of people infected by HIV/AIDS is a development indicator that effects the economy, health services and family/communities.
• Population distribution is the spread of people across a country or the world.
• Population density is how many people live per KM.
• Densely is lots of people per KM.
• Sparely is very few people per KM.
• The dessert is sparse as the climate cause there to be little rain meaning there is no way to plant crops.
• The mountains are sparse as mountain ranges are so high so harder to build houses also very cold and thin soils.
• Capital cities are dense because there is more roads and airports to give people access into the place also the employment being high as there is more job opportunities
• Cities- low land meaning easy to build houses on.