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Human Development Index
February 19, 2015
Three factors of Development
Economic Social Demographic
HDI
HDI:
Human Development Index, created by the United Nations, is a reflection of those three factors The UN selects one economic factor, two social factors, and one demographic factor to compute the HDI The highest HDI possible is 1.0, or 100% – Norway: 0.955, Australia: 0.938, US: 0.937, Netherlands: 0.921, Germany: 0.92
Economic Factors
The United Nations using gross domestic product per capita as the economic factor for calculating HDI
Other economic factors are considered: – Types of jobs – Productivity – Raw Materials – Consumer Goods
GDP Per Capita
Individuals in MDC (More Developed Countries) typically earn more income than in (Lesser Developed Countries) – – Per capita income is difficult to calculate in LDCs
GDP
is the value of the total output of goods and services produced within a country, normally during a year Geographers use GDP per capita instead –
GDP divided by total population
Types of Jobs
Jobs typically fall into three categories: primary, secondary, and tertiary In an LDC, sometimes 75% of workers are in a primary sector, compared to 5% in an MDC In an MDC, jobs have decreased in primary and secondary sectors, and increased in tertiary
Productivity
Workers in an MDC are more productive than workers in an LDC –
Productivity
: the value of a particular product compared to the labor used to make it Machinery can help increase productivity
Raw Materials
Development requires access to raw materials and energy sources LDCs that have petroleum are able to advance more quickly than those that do not Not all developed countries have raw materials (ex: Japan) – Developed through world trade and technology
Consumer Goods
Wealth can be divided between necessities (clothing, shelter, and food) and luxuries (television, cars, technology) The type of goods and services purchased by consumers is another indicator of economic development – How important is the car? Telephone? Television?
Social Indicators
The United Nations uses literacy rate and Gross Enrollment Rate as the social factors for calculating HDI.
MDCs use their wealth to provide schools, hospitals, and welfare services Social factors include: – Education and literacy – Health and welfare
Education and Literacy
The higher the level of development, the greater are both the quantity and quality of education The quality of education is measured in the student/teacher ratio and the literacy rate –
Literacy Rate
: the percentage of a country’s people that can read and write Typically 95% in MDC, and less than 33% in LDC
Health and Welfare
People are healthier in MDCs Most developed states have socialized healthcare – United States is only major developed country where health care is privatized MDCs also offer welfare assistance to help those unable to work – Denmark, Norway, and Sweden provide the most welfare assistance
Demographic Indicators
The United Nations uses life expectancy as the demographic indicator for HDI.
Demographic indicators include: – – Life Expectancy Infant Mortality Rate – Natural Increase Rate – Crude Birth Rate
Life Expectancy
Better health and welfare cause people in MDCs to live longer – –
Life expectancy
: the average number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels Babies are expected to live to their mid-40s in LDCs, and mid-70s in MDCs MDCs have large number of elderly people, and LDCs have large number of children
Infant Mortality Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
: The annual number of deaths or infants under one year of age, compared to the number of live births More babies survive infancy in an MDC – 90% of infants survive in an LDC – 99% of infants survive in an MDC
Natural Increase Rate
NIR:
the percentage by which a population grows in a year. It is computed by subtracting the CBR-CDR – The NIR is about 2% in LDCs, and 1% in MDCs
Crude Birth Rate
Crude Birth Rate
: the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society LDCs have higher NIRs, because they have higher CBRs – – The CBR in an LDC is 40 per 1,000 The CBR in an MDC is 15 per 1,000
Calculating the HDI
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Kuwait: – life expectancy at birth 77.1 years (LE) – – – the adult literacy rate is 93.3% (LR) the education enrollment ratio is 73% (EE) and the gross domestic product per capita is $19,384. (GDP) Brazil: – the life expectancy at birth is 70.8 years – – – the adult literacy rate is 88.6% the education enrollment ratio is 86% and the gross domestic product per capita is $8,195
Question
1. Before making any calculations, how do you think these two countries will compare if we use these measures to come up with a single HDI for each country?
Educational Percentage
To calculate the HDI, first combine the two measures of education using a weighted average, with a two-thirds weight for the
adult literacy rate
(ALR) and a one-third weight for the
education enrollment ratio
(EER). The formula for the weighted average to give the
education percentage
(EP) as a measure of education is
Educational Percentage
HDI calculations
To calculate a single numerical measure of human development, the HDI, we want to combine the measure of health, which is in years, with the measure of education we just found, which is given as a percentage, with the measure of economic well-being, which is given in U.S. dollars.
Question
3. Explain why we cannot combine these values directly with different units (like years, percent, and dollars) into a single measure.
Life Expectancy
To convert life expectancy values to a life expectancy index number, we first identify a reasonable minimum and maximum for each of these values. The United Nations uses
25
as the minimum and
85
as the maximum. Then the
life expectancy value
(LEV) is converted to a
life expectancy index
using the equation (LEI)
Question
4. Explain why an index number defined this way will be between 0 and 1 and will not have any units (like years) associated with it.
Life Expectancy Index
Educational Index
The education percentage (the weighted average of the adult literacy rate and the education enrollment ratio you computed in question 1) is converted to an index value by using a minimum of 0 (percent) and a maximum of 100 (percent). This gives the
education index
(EI) in terms of the
education percentage
(EP) as
Educational Percentage
Calculating the HDI
For the final conversion to an index value, we convert the
gross domestic product
are 100 and 40,000, to calculate the per capita in US$ (GDP) to an index value. This is done a bit differently than the previous conversions. Here base-ten logarithms are used so that the effect of a larger GDP value is diminished. (Natural logs may be used as well.) The minimum and maximum values used by the United Nations for the GDP respectively, and the equation
GDP index value
(GDPI)