ACRONYMS
HDI
Human Development Index
Life expectancy measures what?
Average age a person is expected to live to.
The situation in which a person lacks the resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life.
Absolute (or extreme) poverty
The organisation that established a universal document stipulating a code of Human Rights for every country.
The United Nations
Day
NGO
Non-Government Organisation
What measures the general health of an economy?
Gross Domestic Product
A mutual relationship or connection between two data points
Correlation
The right of a group, community or people to make decisions that affect their own lives
Self Determination
What is the name given to the traditional way that developed and developing countries were divided across a world map?
GNI
Gross National Income
What is a way to see how much an individual or a household earns money?
Income
The differences males and females often experience in terms of access to services or wellbeing outcomes is known as...
Gender inequality
A person who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, economic hardships, war, etc.
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.
Human Wellbeing
UNHRC
United Nations 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
Privacy
The 'S' in BOLTS stands for...
Source
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
What is the name given to the campaign aimed at reducing the difference in wellbeing outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation?
Close the Gap
The capacity to use resources so that they are managed and maintained for future use.
Sustainability
Civil war, corruption, persecution and state-sanctioned violence are all examples of ________ factors that affect human wellbeing.
Political
The difference or variation in natural and human features over an area of the Earth's surface eg water, population, Gross Domestic Product, expectancy
Spatial variation