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Development and Health
Introduction
Other Indicators
[Date]
Today I will:
- Know the three groups of indicators
- Be able to explain how each of the indicators can
show levels of development
Indicators of Development
ECONOMIC
SOCIAL
COMPOSITE
GDP per capita ($)/GNP per capita
($): Indicate how much money a
country has and how much can be
used to develop
education/roads/health etc.
Life expectancy (years): Indicates
how good healthcare is, number of
doctors, nurses, hospitals and
equipment. Diet. Disease e.g. AIDs.
Infant mortality.
Number of patients per doctor:
Indicates how much money is spent
on health. More doctors = more
people treated/prevented from
disease.
Literacy Rate (%): Indicates how
much money is spent on education.
Number of schools, qualified
teachers, how much money parents
have to send kids to school.
Number of calories per person per
day: Reflects how well fed people are,
how much money they have, how
good farming is and how strong
people are to disease.
The Physical Quality
of Life Index (PQLI):
literacy rate, life
expectancy and infant
mortality. Scored out
of 100.
The Human
Development Index
(HDI): Life expectancy,
adult literacy and
GNP. Countries are
given an index from 01 with 1 being the
best.
Income per capita ($): Indicates
how much money people have to
spend on food and luxuries.
TV sets, telephones and car
ownership per 1000 people:
Reflects how many people have
more than they need to survive.
Energy consumed per capita
(Watts): How much electricity,
coal and gas a country uses, how
many people can afford to heat
homes etc.
Development and Health
Introduction
NWW textbook read pages 148 and 149
Questions 1,2 and 3 on page 158
Development and Health
Introduction
[2012] Infant Mortality Rate per 1000 live births is a social
indicator of development. Name one other social indicator
and one economic indicator of development and explain
how they show a country’s level of development. [8 marks]