GOG 102 AND IPPE 2013 MEASURES OF DEVELOPMENT: AND VENN DIAGRAMS Professor Roddy Fox
Six development measures GDP PPP (US$ 2009) Population Size in 2010 Years spent on the UN Security Council HDI 2010 Corruption Perception Index 2010 Happy Planet Index 2012
GDP PPP (US$ 2009) - CIA World Factbook (using World Bank data) Population Size in 2010 - CIA World Factbook Years spent on the UN Security Council - United Nations HDI 2010 - United Nations Development Programme Corruption Perception Index 2010 - Transparency International Happy Planet Index 2012 - New Economics Foundation
World Factbook
Simple Venn Diagram
GDP TOP 20 Complex Venn Diagram POP TOP 20 UN TOP 18
Complex Venn Diagram Enables us to see groups of country’s with similar development characteristics: economic, population and political.
Human Development Reports
Transparency International: Corruption Perception Index
Extract from CPI
New Economics Foundation: Happy Planet Index
Extracts from HPI report
Extracts from HPI report
Extracts from HPI report
Number 34 in the list of the 70 best Infographics on the web Original can be downloaded from: http://www.psmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mmw_CO2footprint_111510.pdf
NEF’s Nic Marks’ TED Talk “...the HPI is not a measure of happiness but of environmental efficiency of delivering happy and long lives for citizens of nations.” Marks, N. 2012. Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index. [Online].Available: http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html [27/07/2012]
Complex Venn Diagram
Completely different pattern to the previous Venn diagram; In Venn 2, countries with high HPI are not the same as countries with high HDI or low corruption; In Venn 2, correspondence is between HDI and CPI.