ACRONYMS
HDI
What is human development indicator
Life expectancy measures what?
What is the average time a person is expected to live?
The situation in which a person lacks the resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life.
What is the UN
This term refers to the attempt to annihilate an entire group of people
What is genocide
NGO
What is Non-Government Organisation
What measures the general health of an economy?
What is Gross Domestic Product
A mutual relationship or connection between two data points
An restriction on the ability to express oneself through means such as censorship
the freed of expression
What year was the Universal Declaration of Human rights was signed?
What is 1948
GNI
Gross National Income
What is a way to see how much an individual or a household earns money?
What is income
When males and females are not treated equally
Gender inequality
A person who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, economic hardships, war etc
What is a refugee
The recognition that everyone around the world, regardless of geography, age, culture, religion or political environment, aspires to live well. It is measured by combining facts and figures with indicators that have a bearing on people's lives.
What is Human Wellbeing
UNHRC
What is United National Human Rights Council
How do you measure how well a country's citizens can read or write?
Literacy Rates
Which data can be measured precisely with numbers?
Quantitative Data
The right to this ensures that the government will not eavesdrop on your phone conversations
What is privacy
The average number of year of education received by people.
What is mean years of schooling
GDP
What is Gross Domestic Product
What is the organisation that strives to establish transparent and accurate data, founded by our good friend Hans Rosling?
What is Gapminder
The capacity to use resources so that they are managed and maintained for future use.
What is sustainability
Euro-Centric
The difference or variation in natural and human features over an area of the Earth's surface eg water, population, Gross Domestic Product, expectancy
What is spatial variation