ACRONYMS
HDI
human development indicator
Life expectancy measures what?
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.
poverty
The organisation that establish a universal document stipulating a code of Human Rights for every country.
The UN
This term refers to the attempt to annihilate an entire group of people
genocide
NGO
Non-Government Organisation
What measures the general health of an economy?
Gross Domestic Product
What is spatial variation?
The difference or variation (in terms of population, population density, GDP, life expectancy) over an area of the Earth's surface.
Which country has the Highest Human Freedom Index?
Switzerland
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
GNI
Gross National Income
What is a way to see how much an individual or a household earns money?
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
a refugee
What is the difference between a developed and developing country?
A country having an effective rate of industrialization and individual income is known as Developed Country. Developing Country is a country which has a slow rate of industrialization and low per capita income.
UNHRC
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
privacy
The average number of year of education received by people.
mean years of schooling
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
What is the name of the country that came up with The Gross National Happiness index?
Bhutan
The capacity to use resources so that they are managed and maintained for future use.
sustainability
The term to describe how the UN declaration of Human Rights is focused on the west.
Euro-Centric
What year was the Universal Declaration of Human rights was signed?
1948