how are global patterns of development identified and measured?

How are global patterns of development identified and

measured?

• http://www.slideshare.net/geographyalltheway/ib-geography-what-is-development

What we think…

• One common view of development is that it can be measured economically – that increasing wealth or increasing levels of poverty are indicators of development.

Development is…

• Reducing levels of poverty• Increasing levels of wealth• Reducing the gap between the richest and poorest

members of society• Creating equal status for men and women• Creating justice, freedom of speech and political

participation from everyone• Ensuring everyone is safe from conflict and terrorism• Ensuring everyone fulfils their basic needs – food

water and shelter• Ensuring that all children have good standards of

education.

Human Development Index

• Development is measured using the Human Development Index (HDI).

• The HDI is worked out by putting together 3 important pieces of information:– Life expectancy– Literacy– Real GDP (Gross Domestic Product – is how much

money earned)

Activity One• In your own words, explain the term

‘development’.

ACTUAL DEFINITION:

• Use of resources, natural and human, to achieve higher standards of living. Before it was based solely on economic factors, now it includes social measures and ideas such as freedom.

5 minutes

Activity Two

1.Stick in your world map showing HDI.2.Copy the question into your books beneath

the map and answer. (4 marks)

Describe the distribution of the highest and lowest countries according to the HDI index map.

10 minutes

The Brandt Line

• Public awareness of the development gap is not new.

• It was first brought into the news headlines in the Brandt Report in 1980.

• This report by Willy Brandt, a German politician, drew a line on the map that separated the richer countries from the poorer ones.

DRAW THE BRANT LINE ONTO YOUR HDI MAP AND LABEL IT (ALSO ADD LABELS FROM THIS SLIDE)

• The MEDC’s are situated mainly in the northern hemisphere.

• The LEDC’s are situated in the southern hemisphere.

• The line loops around Australia and New Zealand to include them in the richer half of the map.

• Is this still accurate today?

What is Infant Mortality Rate and Life Expectancy?

• Health data is also often used to describe a country’s level of development.

• Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is the number of children who die before the age of 1 for every 1000 that are born.

• Life expectancy is the average age to which people can expect to live.

What countries have the highest/lowest infant

mortality?

What countries have the highest/lowest life

expectancy?

• Draw a scattergraph of this data putting IMR on the vertical axis and GDP on the horizontal axis.

• Describe the type of

correlation shown.

• Stick the table and graph into your book.

Activity ThreeGDP per

Capita (ppp)$

Infant Mortality (per thousand)

Sierra Leone

1,040 144

Rwanda 1,600 92Pakistan 3,300 72Uganda 1,300 65Kenya 1,400 62Egypt 6,000 32Brazil 9,500 30Malaysia 10,000 18Spain 25,500 6UK 31,500 6Australia 33,00 6

25 minutes