HDI Review

Human Development index is best described as;

• the development of a country and how much money it has
• index that measures a country’s well being and rank in order of the most developed to least developed country  based on 3 key criteria
• how long people are living and how happy they are

high birth rate, high infant mortality & a low literacy rate is associated with a

• more developed or highly developed country

• less developed country

What does the acronym HDI stand for?

• Human Development Index

• Huge Donut Industry

• High Development Industry

• Highly Dubious Imagination

Which three indicators are used to measure the HDI?

• Life expectancy, literacy rate, number of trees per 1000 people

• Life expectancy, mortality rates and GDP

What is life expectancy?

• How long people are expected to live

• What people expect out of life

• Whether or not you will be born

• Amount of money a country has

What is the literacy rate?

• The percentage of adults who have written a book

• The percentage of adults who can read and write

• The percentage of adults who have electricity per 1000

• The percentage of children that can read by age 5

A more developed nation has a low birth rate, low infant mortality rate, and a short life expectancy.

• True
• False

For every 1,000 babies born in Mozambique this year, nearly 150 of them will die before they reach their 1st birthday. The rate of 150 deaths per 1,000 births is known as the:

• crude death rate.
• crude birth rate.
• total fertility rate.
• infant mortality rate.

The United States is classified as a

• newly industrialized country

• more developed country

• less developed country

Syria is classified as a

• newly industrialized country

• more developed country

• less developed country