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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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