Economic/Social Indicators

What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?

• The total market value of goods produced and services produced in a country in a given period of time.
• the maximum population the earth (or a country) can support on a continuing basis.
• The number of deaths under one year of age occurring among the live births in a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 births.
• The ability to read, write, listen and speak a language at a level for adequate communication.

What is GDP per capita?

• measures the average income (money earned) earned per person in a given area (city, region, country) in a specified year.
• number of people on Earth
• Living on around $2 a day
• The total market value of goods produced and services produced in a country in a given period of time.

What is Literacy Rate?

• How fast one can read a book.

• How many people graduate high school.

• The ability to read, write, listen and speak a language at a level for adequate communication.
• education level

What is Life Expectancy?

• When basic needs cannot be met (adequate food, clean water, shelter, education and health) due to economic constraints.
• The average period that a person may expect to live
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• When a woman is pregnant.

What does Poverty mean?

• Living on around $2 a day
• The average period that a person may expect to live
• This calculated by dividing the total population by the total land area.
• When basic needs cannot be met (adequate food, clean water, shelter, education and health) due to economic constraints.

What is the International poverty line?

• Living on around $1,500 a year

• Living on around $2 a day
• Living on around $1.20 a day

• Living on $30 a month

What is birth rate?

• the total number of live births per 1,000 of a population in a year.
• the total number of births in a month

• the total number of births in a week

• number of people on Earth

What is the death rate?

• total number of deaths per 1,000 of a population in a MONTH

• total number of deaths per 1,000 of a population SIX MONTHS

• total number of deaths per 1,000 of a population in a year.
• Living on around $2 a day

The number of deaths among infants under age one as measured per thousand live births

• infant mortality rate
• death rate
• rate of natural decrease
• carrying capacity

What is extreme poverty?

• Living on around $1,500 a year

• Living on around $2 a day
• Living on around $1.20 a day

• Living on $30 a month