Transcript development indicators

Last lesson you chose photos to show development or lack of it.
• This lesson you are going to find out how
you decide if a country is developed or
not…
You will learn:
1. What a development indicator is
2. What is good or bad about them
3. How you use them
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
FROM THE CIA FACTBOOK or UN DATA
Most here are social indicators.
Task 1: Highlight in red the ones you think are mainly economic indicators. Some are
debatable. Highlight in green any environmental indicators.
Infant mortality rate
GDP (PPP)/capita
life expectancy
no of people/doctor
literacy rate
% access to clean water
Big Mac
% in agriculture
% in services
birth rate
% female literacy
no. of yrs of schooling
poverty rate
maternal mortality rate
health expenditure % of GDP
hospital bed density
children under 5 underweight
% of GDP military expenditure
% forest cover in a country
Indicators of development
have several uses:
• They allow us to use a figure for comparing different countries.
• Countries can be ranked in an attempt to fairly allocate Aid
payments.
• Indicators give us an idea about what the country is like
economically, socially even environmentally.
• They do however have limitations that you should be aware of.
Development enquiry:
The UN has $500,000 of aid to allocate to one country. Which country should get the aid?
Task 2: Choose 6 LEDCs from Africa, Asia and S or Central America; one must be the
Philippines. Now join with another person and decide on just 6 between you.
Complete tasks 3 and 4 together but each recording the information. Mark your 6
countries onto slide 5.
Task 3: Choose 6 indicators. Make sure you have a spread of economic and social
indicators. Include one environmental indicator. You will have to justify them with
advantages and disadvantages after Task 4. (Slide 8 – use model answer on slide 7
to help)
Task 4: Complete the table to record your data for the 6 countries and the 6 indicators
(slide 7) Put units for column headings. Rank the data 1-6 where 1 = the best
(highest for something like GDP/capita and lowest for something like infant mortality.
Total your scores. Rank the 6 countries according to the totals.
Task 5: INDIVIDUALLY: Which country should get the aid? (slides 9-11)
Countries: mark them onto this map
Table showing development indicators
Country/
indicator
Total rank
order
Total
Example for next task (try s-cool.co.uk
if you need help)
Infant mortality: this is the number of infants that die prematurely. You need to check the figures
because it could be the numbers that die before they are one or five. It could be as a percentage
of the births or a per thousand figure. Just check carefully before using.
This will tell us the state of the countries health service, food provision and water quality:
+ Indicates quality of health care, water quality, food supply.
- Hard to get an accurate figure as many births in the less developed countries would be unregistered.
+ Very easy indicator to understand.
- Evidence from some countries that the level of infant mortality is well above that disclosed.
+ Focuses on one of the most significant aspects of development.
- High infant mortality could be a result of social or political factors.
6 indicators
Indicator
Advantages
Disadvantages
Aid – who gets it?
Find a map showing where the country is and 4
images of the country that back up your findings.
Paste them here.
Write a paragraph justifying why this country
should receive the aid. Use data from your table.
Evaluate your methods (what was good about the method
you used to choose the country and what could have been
improved)