1. Human Environments: Development
Development indicators.

2. What do we mean by development?
Lesson starter:
What do we mean by development?

3. What makes a country developed?
Lesson starter:
What makes a country developed?

4. How do we measure development?
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How do we measure development?

5. How is development divided on a global scale?
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How is development divided on a global scale?

6. The rich North
The poor south

7. Task One: What are development indicators?
On your left side, write Development Indicators at the top of the page.
What do you think might be some indicators of development?

8. Number of newspapers sold per day.
GDP
Birth rate
Number of newspapers sold per day.
Calories consumed per day
Percentage of people working in agriculture
Death rate
Adult literacy rate
Number of cars per family
Number of people per rooms in house.
Crime rate
Infant mortality rate
Amount of debt a country has.
People per hospital
Number of computers per family
Obesity rate

9. Task 2: How do we categorise indicators?
Now we must put the indicators into categories.

10. What do you think each of these mean?
Development indicators
Development indicators can be split into 3 different categories:
Economic Indicators
Health Indicators
Social indicators
What do you think each of these mean?

11. These indicators are to do with money and the economy.
Economic Indicators
These indicators are to do with money and the economy.

12. These indicators are to do with health and health care.
Health Indicators
These indicators are to do with health and health care.

13. Social indicators
These are to do with the people of the country. Employment, education, housing all come under this banner.

14. Task 2: Economic Indicators Health Indicators Social indicators
You should now have a large list of indicators on your left-side
You must identify which ones are Health, Social and Economic indicators.
Colour code them by drawing a circle around them in one of the following colours.
Economic Indicators
Health Indicators
Social indicators

15. Task 3
The next slide has a number of pictures on it. Work out what indicator they represent and what category they go into (Health, Social or Economic)

16. Development Indicators
S2 RICH WORLD POOR WORLD
Development Indicators
GDP – average wealth of a person
Life Expectancy
Energy consumed per person
Adult Literacy
Infant Mortality
People per Doctor
People employed in
Agriculture
Calories consumed per day

17. Question:
“One development indicator is never enough to tell us how developed a country is.”
Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
What development indicator do you think is most important?

18. Development indicators: The value of indicators.
During the next part of this lesson we are going to look at the value of different development indicators.
You will see a number of indicators and you must discuss the positives and negatives of each of them.
You must write the indicator down and the positives and negatives of using it in your jotter.

19. Birth Rate Is this a good indicator of development? Give reasons.
Positives – this could be seen as a good indicator as if a country has a very high birth rate then it may mean that it lacks the resources to teach family planning. It may also mean that families have many children to help them work on their farms because many people work in agriculture. It may also indicate that health care could be poor because people may have more children in case one dies at a young age.
Negative – a country could still be developed or almost developed but have a high birth rate Brazil could be an example. It doesn’t tell you anything about the economy.

20. GDP – Gross Domestic Product
Positives - It gives you an indication of how much money the country as a whole has, if this is high then you can usually tell that the country is developed. Money accounts for education, health care and many other social problems. So if a country has a high GDP it will usually be developed.
Negatives - GDP is an average (like all indicators) so it does not account for differences in a country. For example China has a high GDP but there are many people living below the poverty line (in some cases in rural china less than $1 per day) while other people are billionaires.

21. Development indicators value
Development indicators are taken as an average and because of this they are not always reliable.
One indicator on its own does not show enough data to tell you if a country is developed or not.
Indicators showing an average do not show you the extremes in a country – for example people living under the poverty line in the USA while it has the largest number of billionaires on the planet.

22. Human Development Index HDI
In 1990, the UN replaced GNP as the measurement of development with the HDI.
It is a social welfare index measuring human literacy, life expectancy, and the ‘real’ GNP – that is what an income will actually buy in a country.
The HDI is an attempt to compare quality of life between people and places and ,unlike GNP, it can measure differences within a country

23. Can you guess the countries with the top HDI?
Lesson plenary
Can you guess the countries with the top HDI?
Top 5 HDI (2011)
Norway 0.943
Australia 0.929
Netherlands 0.910
United States 0.910
New Zealand 0.908
Canada 0.908

24. Can you guess the countries with the lowest HDI?
Bottom 5(2011)
Chad
Mozambique 0.322
Burundi 0.316
Niger 0.295
Democratic Republic of Congo 0.286