Inside the HDI
Gender & Development
GDP in Context
Standard of Living
Development Scenarios
100
This index combines health, education, and income to compare human development among countries.
Human Development Index (HDI)
100
This index measures gender disparities in reproductive health, empowerment, and labor-force participation.
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
100
GDP is the annual market value of final goods and services produced within a country's ___.
Borders
100
The overall quality of people's material conditions and daily life is their ___.
Standard of living
100
The number of children and older adults relative to the working-age population is the ___.
Dependency ratio
200
For HDI, the income dimension uses this measure per person, not GDP.
GNI per capita
200
In the GII, women's share of seats in a national parliament is an indicator of ___.
Empowerment
200
A baker buys flour and sells bread. To avoid double counting, GDP counts the bread but excludes the ___ as an intermediate good.
Flour
200
Roads, power grids, water systems, and internet networks are forms of ___.
Infrastructure
200
When a country has a large working-age population relative to dependents and enough jobs, it may gain a ___.
Demographic dividend
300
When two countries have equal education and GNI per capita, the one with a 12-year longer lifespan leads in this HDI dimension.
Life expectancy
300
All else equal, a country's GII should ___ as maternal mortality falls and women's labor-force participation rises.
Decrease
300
A country produces $240 billion in final goods and services and has 12 million people. Its GDP per capita is ___.
$20,000
300
Cities A and B have the same average income, but B has safer homes, more clinics, and broader clean-water access. The higher standard of living is in ___.
City B
300
The spread of high-yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation, and mechanization to raise food output describes the ___.
Green Revolution
400
Mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling together represent this HDI dimension.
Education
400
Country X has high female labor-force participation but few women in parliament and high maternal mortality. Its GII can remain high because political representation and ___ are weak.
Reproductive health
400
A foreign-owned company makes $2 billion in final electronics inside Country M and sends profits abroad. The production counts in Country M's ___.
GDP
400
A nation has high GDP per capita, but wealth is concentrated among a few people and public health care is weak. GDP per capita can conceal ___ and poor quality of life.
Inequality
400
A foreign company builds and operates a new assembly plant in another country, making a lasting ownership investment. This is ___.
Foreign direct investment (FDI)
500
HDI combines its normalized health, education, and GNI-per-capita dimensions with this type of average, which penalizes severe imbalance.
Geometric mean
500
A country has low maternal mortality and broad parliamentary representation but very low female labor-force participation. The GII domain needing the clearest improvement is ___.
Labor-force participation
500
Country A has GDP of $600 billion and 150 million people; Country B has GDP of $180 billion and 30 million people. The higher GDP per capita belongs to ___.
Country B
500
For a low-income neighborhood lacking safe water and clinics, the plan most likely to raise living standards is investment in water, sanitation, and ___.
Primary health care
500
Rather than exporting raw coffee beans, a country builds roasting, packaging, and branding industries at home. It is moving up the ___.
Value chain
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