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    • Development
      The process of improving quality of life in a country
    • Life expectancy
      The average amount of years people are expected to live in a country
    • GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

      The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year
    • GNI (Gross National Income)

      The total amount of money earned (income) by a country in a year
    • Literacy rates
      The percentage of people over the age of 15 who can read and write in a country
    • Birth rates
      The number of babies born per 1000
    • Death rates
      The amount of people who die per 1000
    • Infant mortality
      The number of babies who die before the age of 1 per 1000
    • What is the structure of an 8 marker

      PDDA x2 + conclusion
    • Single development indicator

      Used to assess or represent a particular aspect of development
    • Composite development indicator

      Considers more than one aspect of development
    • HDI (Human Development Index)
      • Life expectancy
      • Average years of schooling
      • GNI
    • Distribution patterns
      • Linear (lined up in a straigh fashion)
      • Clustered (grouped together, forming distinct clusters)
      • Dispersed (spread out more evenly or randomly across an area)
      • Even
      • Uneven
    • Periphery area
      Places that do not receive much public or private investment
    • Geopolitics
      The study and analysis of the relationship between politics, geography and international relations
    • Core area
      Places that receive a lot of public and private investment
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