DEVELOPMENT IN COUNTRIESYear 10 Geography

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX

A human development (HDI) index is a new way of calculating the development of a country, by taking into account income, life expectancy and educational attainment. It is a better way of measuring development because it refers to social and economic progress or regress. The HDI puts a minimum and maximum for each dimension these are goalposts, and then it shows where each country stands in comparison to these goalposts by putting them as a value between 0 and 1. http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/?gclid=COnk78zNp60CFcQQNAodOWlXdg

HDI: EDUCATION

The educational part of HDI is measured by the average of years adults of 25 years old have been to school. And expected years of schooling for children of school entering age. Expected years of schooling are estimated based on the enrolments by age at each levels or years of education and the population’s official school age for each level of education.

HDI: LIFE EXPECTANCY ( HEALTH)

http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/calculator/http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/69206.htmlhttp://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/

How is life expectancy calculated? Life expectancy is calculated using an average of the number of years people born on the same year in the same living conditions.Life expectancy is important because it can reflect how the healthcare in a certain area is and what other factors are involved that could be improved.

HDI: INCOME ( GROSS NATIONAL INCOME PER CAPITA)

The GNI per capita reflect the national income it does not tell us what the money is used for wither it is in education, health or military expansion. ( http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD )

GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS

What is gross national happiness ? ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zqdqa4YNvI )

CURRENT AFFAIRS

“According to the UN human development index (HDI), which measures life expectancy, literacy,

education levels and standards of living in a country, six of the 10 most developed nations in the world are in Europe.And when the HDI takes into account inequality, nine out of the 10 best-performing nations are European, proof that the old continent has been the most effective in creating the least stratified societies.I realise the 24% of employed Greek citizens might take issue with being told they are lucky to live in Europe. But in 2011, after four years of recession, Greece still had a higher GD per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP) than any country in South America and Africa as well as most of Asia, according to the IMF. None of the much-touted Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) has a GDP per capita even close to that of the European "sick man".

‘’ By Remi Adekoya

guardian.co.uk Wednesday 19 September 2012

DATABASE LINKS

•Here are a few links of graphs, times etc. •http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/•http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/map/

HAITI EARTHQUAKES Affect on development

BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT HAITI EARTHQUAKE

When: 12th January 2010Where: Port-au-Prince, ( capital) Haiti What: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake due to the movement of the tectonic plates.

WHERE AND WHO?

Population map of the distribution population for Hispaniola*with the location of the mainshock and largest aftershock. The fault rupture** occurred to the south-west of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince with a population of about 700,000.

*(An island in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, divided into the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. )**A break in the ground along the fault line during an earthquake.

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF THE EARTHQUAKE

The earthquake destroyed about 30% of Haiti capital Prince-au- port, the earthquake also caused water-borne illness could run rampant and chemicals and oil leak out of damaged storage facilities. No large industrial oil spills were found during initial postquake rescue efforts, but of course the focus was on saving human lives and restoring civil order.The earthquake some 40 % to 50% of the buildings fell in Port-au-Prince and nearby towns. Causing lack of housing therefore decreasing the living standards and affecting the economy massively with have to reconstruct offices, schools and houses as well as businesses.Intensive logging beginning in the 1950s reduced Haiti’s forest cover from 60 percent to less than 2 percent today. Causing a lack of trees and because of that huge soil erosion problems, threatening food and clean water sources.

SOCIAL IMPACT

The earthquake that occurred in Haiti on the 12th of January of 2010 caused approximately 316,000 deaths. And because of the destruction more than a million Haitians were still living in relief camps six months after the earthquake.