Standard of living

What can cause a country to have a low literacy rate? 

• Uneducated Parents 
• Lack of learning materials
• Lack of resources (poverty) 
• all of these

What is literacy?

• the ability to read and write
• the ability to read
• the ability to hear
• the ability to write

Why is literacy important to people's success?

• Literacy is not important to people's success. 
• Literacy is important.
• If adults cannot read and write, they have to take lower paying jobs. 

Countries with high literacy rates are generally wealthier.

• True
• False

What is standard of living?

• the ability to read and write.
• the percentage of people in a country that can read and write.
• It measures how well off people in a country are. 
• the average number of years a person in a country is expected to live. 

If the literacy rate of a country is high, is the standard of living generally high or low?

• Low
• High

Being able to read allows people to 

• often get lower paying jobs, afford clothing, and afford healthcare. 
• get better jobs and earn more, afford housing, food, clothing, and health care for their families.
• think.
• earn less money. 

What is life expectancy?

• It measures how well off people in the country are. 
• The percentage of adults who can read and write
• the average number of years a person in a country is expected to live
• none of these

A developing or third world country has a high or low standard of living?

• Low standard of living

• High standard of living

Wealth, healthcare, access to technology, and literacy rate help make up ______?

• GDP

• GDP per Capita

• Standard of Living