Identify+Indicators+of+Development

We need to develop a set of indicators to use for our research purposes. Note some of the examples below. Click on each to exam the source.
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What exactly would you look at to determine something like Political Stability? How would you rate it? 1-10? Some other scale?

__ **Look over this list of indicators** __


 * National Income ([|GDP/GNP])
 * Distribution of Income (see also [|Relative Poverty] )
 * Number of doctors per head of the population
 * Number of televisions per head of the population
 * [|Absolute Poverty]
 * [|Relative Poverty]
 * Literacy Rates
 * Disease Indicators - AIDS, per head of the population, malaria, etc.
 * Demographic Indicators - population growth, urban/rural population figures and mortality rates, life expectancy, etc.
 * Education - Primary school enrolment, secondary school enrolment, proportion of the population attending university, etc.
 * Human Development Index


 * Task: Human Development Index **

Answer the following questions through research:

1. What is the Human Development Index?

2. How is it measured?

3. Name the top 3 countries based on this index.

4. Which countries top the individual measurements that make up the HDI? Take each of the indices that make up the HDI ( there are 3) which country is at the top of each?

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