Human Environments:

Development
Development indicators.
• Title: Development indicators

• Date: 20/05/2018
Aims of this unit:
• To find out what we mean by
development.

• To find out how we measure

development.

• To explore the value of different

development indicators.
Lesson starter:
• During S2 you all studied the Global Poverty unit.
• Some of the things that you studied during that
time will help you during the Development unit.

• Talk with the people beside you and then answer

the following questions in your jotter.

• What do we mean by development?

• What makes a country developed?
• How do we measure development?
• How is development divided on a global scale?
Lesson starter:

What do we
mean by
development?
Lesson starter:

What makes a
country
developed?
Lesson starter:

How do we
measure
development?
Lesson starter:

How is
development
divided on a
global scale?
The rich North

The poor south

Task 1:
How do we measure development?
• You will be put into groups of 4.

• Collect a piece of poster paper and a pen.

• Write Development Indicators at the top of the

page.

• Talk with each other and try to think of as many

development indicators as you can.

• Write them down on the poster paper.

 Number of
GDP Birth rate newpapers sold
per day.

Percentage of
Calories
people working in Death rate
consumed per day
agriculture

Number of people
Number of cars
Adult literacy rate per rooms in
per family
house.

Infant mortality Amount of debt a Crime rate

rate country has.

Number of
People per
computers per Obesity rate
hospital
family
Task 2:
How do we categorise indicators?

• Now we must put the indicators into

categories.

• Can anyone remember what they are?

Development indicators
• Development indicators can be split into 3 different
categories:

• Economic Indicators
• Health Indicators What do you
• Social indicators think each of
these mean?
Economic Indicators

•These indicators are to

do with money and the
economy.
Health Indicators

•These indicators are

to do with health and
health care.
Social indicators

• These are to do with the

people of the country.
Employment, education,
housing all come under
this banner.
Task 2:
• You should now have a large list of indicators on
your poster.
• You must identify which ones are Health, Social and
Economic indicators.

• Colour code them by drawing a circle around them

in one of the following colours.
• Economic Indicators
• Health Indicators
• Social indicators
Development indicators
worksheet.
• Complete the development indicators sheet
in your jotter. You must colour code the
indicators depending on whether they are
Economic, Social or Health.

• Then you must pick 4 of the indicators and

explain in detail why it tells you if a country
is developed or not.

• (example)
Development indicators worksheet.
• Example:
• Number of people per doctor:
• This tells us how developed a country is in a
number of ways.
• If there is a small number of people per
doctor it tells us that health care is good in a
country.
• It also means that education will often be
good as people are being educated to the
level of a doctor.
• It will also mean that the health of the
people of the country will be good.
Lesson plenary
• Pack away your jotters but stay in your seats.

• We are going to go around the class and see if we

can come up with a different development indicator
for each person.

• When you get one correct you can stand up and

push your chair in.
Development indicators
lesson 2.
• Title:
• The value of development indicators.

• Date: 20/05/2018
Development indicators
lesson 2.
• Lesson aims:

• To find out why one indicator is not

enough to decide how developed a
country is.

• To examine the value of the different

indicators.
Lesson starter
• The next slide has a number of
pictures on it. Work out what indicator
they represent and what category they
go into (Health, Social or Economic)
 S2 RICH WORLD POOR WORLD

Life Expectancy GDP – average wealth

of a person

Energy consumed per person

Adult Literacy

Infant Mortality
People per Doctor

People employed in
Agriculture
Calories consumed per day
Question:
• “One development indicator is
never enough to tell us how
developed a country is.”

• Do you agree or disagree with this

statement?

• What development indicator do you think is

most important?
Development indicators: The
value of indicators.
• During the next part of this lesson we are
going to look at the value of different
development indicators.

• You will see a number of indicators and you

must discuss the positives and negatives of
each of them.

• You must write the indicator down and the

positives and negatives of using it in your
jotter.
Birth Rate
• Is this a good indicator of development?
Give reasons.
• Positives – this could be seen as a good indicator as
if a country has a very high birth rate then it may
mean that it lacks the resources to teach family
planning. It may also mean that families have many
children to help them work on their farms because
many people work in agriculture. It may also indicate
that health care could be poor because people may
have more children in case one dies at a young age.

• Negative – a country could still be developed or

almost developed but have a high birth rate Brazil
could be an example. It doesn’t tell you anything
about the economy.
GDP – Gross Domestic Product
• Positives - It gives you an indication of how much
money the country as a whole has, if this is high
then you can usually tell that the country is
developed. Money accounts for education, health
care and many other social problems. So if a
country has a high GDP it will usually be developed.

• Negatives - GDP is an average (like all indicators) so

it does not account for differences in a country. For
example China has a high GDP but there are many
people living below the poverty line (in some cases
in rural china less than $1 per day) while other
people are billionaires.
Development indicators value
• Development indicators are taken as an average and
because of this they are not always reliable.

• One indicator on its own does not show enough data

to tell you if a country is developed or not.

• Indicators showing an average do not show you the

extremes in a country – for example people living
under the poverty line in the USA while it has the
largest number of billionaires on the planet.
Human Development Index HDI
• In 1990, the UN replaced GNP as the
measurement of development with the HDI.

• It is a social welfare index measuring human

literacy, life expectancy, and the ‘real’ GNP –
that is what an income will actually buy in a
country.

• The HDI is an attempt to compare quality of

life between people and places and ,unlike
GNP, it can measure differences within a
country
Lesson plenary

Top 5 HDI (2011) Can you guess the

countries with the top
HDI?
• Norway 0.943
• Australia 0.929
• Netherlands 0.910
• United States 0.910
• New Zealand 0.908
• Canada 0.908
Bottom 5(2011) Can you guess the
countries with the lowes
HDI?
• Chad 0.328
• Mozambique 0.322
• Burundi 0.316
• Niger 0.295
• Democratic Republic of Congo 0.286
Task

• Turn to page 161 of the Geog S.G books.

• Complete activities 1-5.