ENV 5EF Formative

Is the United States an example of a developing country or developed country?

• Developing

• Developed

• Neither

• Both

What are two characteristics of developed countries? 

• high per capita GDP

• poor health care systems

• high levels of industrialization 

• high population

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What are two characteristics of developing countries?

• Less access to health care, education, and technology

• Lots of different types of industries

• Lower per capita GDP

• Strong economies

Countries with high levels of literacy and higher education are in which level of economic development?

• Developed

• Newly Industrialized

• Developing

Countries with very low literacy rate, low life expectancy, high unemployment.

• Developed

• Newly Industrialized

• Developing

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The closer the HDI is to 0, the _____ developed the country is.

• less

• more

What is the Human Development Index?

• The health of an individual.

• A set of statistics or numbers that rank countries by their development.

• The country a person lives in,

• The number of preventable diseases in a country.

Which one is NOT a factor when determining the HDI of a country?

• Education

• Health

• Income

• Miltary Size

Japan has an HDI score of 0.884. The life expectancy is 79, literacy is 100%, and the income of an average family is $34,000. Japan would be classified as a less developed country.

• True

• False

If a country has a high GDP, does it mean that all its population is wealthy?

• yes

• no