the progress of a country in terms of wealth, use of technology and human welfare

a measure of goods and services produced by a country, including income earned abroad; may be divided by the total population to give ‘GNI per head’

average number of years an individual can expect to live at birth; worldwide this doubled from 1900 to 2021

a UN measure of development calculated using education, life expectancy and income data

Measuring development

Geography

This unit teaches pupils about global economic development. Pupils learn how, using a variety of measures, economic development is unequal and how this is reflected in demographic characteristics. Pupils learn about the causes and consequences of inequality and consider how they can be reduced.

Global inequalities

The UK’s gross national income (GNI) is a measure of goods and services produced …

GNI per {{}} is an economic measure of development and is the value of average income per person within a population, if the total were split equally between them.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a combined measure of {{}} and economic development.

Which of the following development measures is included in the UN's Human Development Index (HDI)?

Life satisfaction is a subjective measure of {{}} of life.

One limitation of using ‘life satisfaction’ to compare countries is that the results vary …

Development is the progress of a country in terms of wealth, use of {{}} and human welfare.

What type of international rules have been recognised as limiting the growth of lower income countries?

In the 1990s, Amartya Sen widened the definition of development to include human {{}} and suggested everyone had an equal entitlement to a good life.

By when have countries pledged to try to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

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