Geography

• What is the development gap?


  The difference in standards of living between the world’s richest and poorest countries
• Human Development Index (HDI)


  Provides a holistic view

  • Life expectancy
  • GNI
  • Literacy Rate
• Human Development Index (HDI)


  Provides a holistic view Provides a holistic view

  • Life expectancy
  • GNI
  • Literacy Rate
• Limitations of economic and social measures of development 


  • Data could be out of date
  • Data could be unreliable (infant mortality)
  • Government corruption can cause unreliable data
• Social Causes of Uneven Development

  • Colonisation
  • Conflict
• Economic reasons for uneven development 


  • Debt
  • Trade
• Physical causes of uneven development 


  • Malaria
  • Access to Water
  • Landlocked
  • Natural Hazards
  • Infertile Soil