BGE 5-01 - Sustainability - Living Standard vs Quality of Life

Standard of Living vs

Quality of Life

What today is all about:

​We are going to learn...

• What 'Standard of Living' is.

• What 'Quality of Life' means.

• What 'Per Capita' is.

• Ask ourselves "are they connected?"

This refers to a population's level of material goods, comfort, wealth and necessities available to them.

It could be measured on a national or regional basis.

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Standard of Living

Per Capita GDP - What Is It?

• Standard of living is usually measured in GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

• Gross Domestic Product is normally split into 'per capita' which means the total GDP for a population divided by how many adults are in that population.

​Task 1 - Find out what Gross Domestic Product is, and put it in your own words into a Word document.

Task 2 - Find out what Scotland's per capita GDP is and make a record of it in the same Word doc.

Task 3 - choose another country outside the UK, and record what its per capita GDP is.

Multiple Select

GDP is usually measured in the value of...

• Goods and services produced by a population.

• Goods and services consumed by a population.

• Goods and needs identified in a population.

• Goods and needs consumed by a population.

Multiple Choice

What was Scotland's GDP - per capita (per adult) - in 2021?

• £11.098

• £92,045

• £33,033

• £38,038

Multiple Choice

What does 'per capita' mean?

• Divided by the number of people in a population.

• Multiplied by the number of adults in a country.

• Divided by the number of adults in a population.

• Multiplied by the number of adults in a population.

Life quality is completely different from Standard of Living, but are they connected?

Look at the different things that impact our quality of life and think carefully - how good is your quality of life?

Quality of Life

Go on to the internet and search for a list of different countries' quality of life. First of all - can you find one? If you can, where does Scotland come (if you can't find Scotland, use the UK.

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Quality of Life in Scotland

Quality of Life in Scotland

Now use the OECD website you just used to check out the country/region you chose for the previous exercise. The OECD doesn't cover the whole world so you may have to choose a different country if yours is not in the list.

In your Word document, paste both Scotland's and the other region's Well-Being factors (Environment, Income, Health, Safety etc) and compare them.

​2 Your Chosen Country

Check out this web page.

Compare the Quality of Life Indices in the rest of the UK. How well does Scotland compare?

1 Well-Being

Poll

So now you have seen the differences between Standard of Living and Quality of Life. Are they - in your opinion - linked?

• Very Strongly

• Quite Closely

• A Little

• Not Really

Multiple Choice

What things apply to a population's Standard of Living?

• GDP, Happiness, Health, Education

• Jobs, Community, Environment, Health

• Community, Housing, Income, Safety, Access to Services, Environment, Civic Engagement

• Gross Domestic Product