Economic Development Quiz

Analyze the Population Pyramid: What type of country would this population pyramid represent?

• This would represent a developing country with a high death rate and a high birth rate

• This would represent a developed country as it has a high birth rate and a high death rate.

• This would represent a stationary country as nothing is changing.

• None of these are correct

True or False Developing Countries have strong infrastructure

• True

• False

This country Cambodia has a Poverty line of $1.25 USD a day, but in the USA the Poverty Line is $35 a day, would someone living in Poverty in the USA be living in Poverty if they moved to Cambodia

• Yes, because Poverty is not relative to each person

• No, because Poverty is not relative to each person.

• Yes, because Poverty is subjective based on where you live.

• No, because Poverty is subjective based on where you live.

True or False: Poverty is not just about not having money, but not having the hope to escape poverty.

• True

• False

What continent has NO Developed countries?

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

• North America

True or False: The birth rate includes miscarriages, stillborn babies, and abortions

• True

• False

Blank measures how many deaths there are per 1,000 people in a country

(a)  

What are the three types of population pyramids?

• constrictive

• stationary

• expansive

• all of the above

What is the ideal population pyramid?

• Stationary

• constrictive

• conductive

• expansive

Countries that are developed have these two main things (Choose TWO Answers)

• Good economies

• Bad roads

• Good Public Services

• Good Public Sports