Development Indicators LO Describe a range of development

Development Indicators LO: Describe a range of development indicators and explain how these indicate levels of development.

Development To explore and define the development indicators Development measures how economically, socially, culturally and technologically advanced a country is. Put the following countries into order of development: UK India China Germany USA Ghana DR Congo Norway Malaysia Brazil What influenced the order of development? What made you put the countries in that particular order?

How do we measure development? 1. Wealth – GDP/GNI 2. Life expectancy 3. Infant mortality rate 4. The % of people living below US$1 per day 5. % of people with access to clean water and sanitation 6. Average number of people per doctor 7. % of children who attend primary, secondary and higher education 8. Literacy rate 9. % of the population with mobile phones, television and the internet 10. % of people working in primary, secondary and tertiary employment sectors

Key Development Indicators COPY: There a number of ways development can be measured. Match the following indicators with the correct definition. Sort them into SOCIAL & ECONOMIC development. 1. Gross National Product (GNP)/Gross National Income (GNI) EXTENSION: Can you think of any other development indicators? 2. Literacy 3. Life expectancy 4. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 5. Infant mortality rate 1. The number of babies, per 1000 live births, who die under the age of 1. 2. The % of adults who can read and write. 3. The total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year. 4. The average to which a person lives. 5. The total income of a country including earnings from abroad. SOCIAL development = measures the access people have to wealth, education, food, health etc ECONOMIC development = measures a country’s wealth

GNI per capita and Life Expectancy 1. What would you expect the trend to look like when plotting GNI per capita and Life Expectancy data on a scatter graph? 2. Describe the relationship shown between GNI per capita and life expectancy. Use data from the graph to support your description. (3) 3. Suggest reasons why there is a relationship between GNI per capita and life expectancy (4)

Can you think of any disadvantages of using only one measure to indicate a countries level of development? What would be a better way to measure development?

Using more that one This is known as a composite indicator Such as HDI or PQLI