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Indicator |
Indicators can be either quantitative or qualitative to measure people's well being. Quantitative indicators provide accurate and measurable comparisons, such as life expectancy or percentage of population below the poverty line. Qualitative indicators are a description of the quality and characteristics rather than a measurement, such as quality of food supplies and housing. |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product is the total value of the goods and services produced in a country over one year. |
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GDP per capita |
Gross Domestic Product can be converted into GDP per capita. The total GDP for a country is calculated and divided by the country's total population to determine the per captia amount. |
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GNI |
Gross National Income is the total income of all citizens of a country including income generated from investment and earning overseas. This is a valuable indicator of the economic strength of a country. The income per capita can also be calculated by dividing a country's GNI by its population
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Life Expectancy |
The average number of years a person is estimated to live from birth. Australia's average life expectancy at birth in 2012 was 81.9 years compared to 57 years in Sierra Leone. |
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HDI |
Human Development Index is a composite index that measures a country's average achievements in three aspects of human development life expectancy at birth, education (combination of mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling) and the GNI per capita. In 2012, Norway was the highest ranked HDI country in the world followed by Australia, while the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger had the equal lowest ranking of 186 |
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Human Wellbeing |
An individual's thoughts and feelings about how well they are doing in life. |
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NGO |
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-profit business. Usually set up by ordinary citizens,NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations, schools, businesses, or private people. |
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PPP |
Theories that invoke purchasing power parity assume that in some circumstances (for example, as a long-run tendency) it would cost exactly the same number of, for example, US dollars to buy euros and then to use the proceeds to buy a market basket of goods as it would cost to use those dollars directly in purchasing the market basket of goods. |
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Scatter Graph |
A scatter graph is a type of mathematical diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values for typically two variables for a set of data. If the points are color-coded you can increase the number of displayed variables to three.
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Gender Equality |
Gender equality, also known as sex equality, genderegalitarianism, sexual equality or equality of the genders, is the view that both men and women should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on their gender.
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Oppression
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Oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. |
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Empowerment |
Empower means "give power or authority to." When you educate children and believe in them, you empower those kids to go after their dreams. |
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Infanticide |
The crime of a parent killing her child within a year of birth. |
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Gender Equality |
The state in which access to rights or opportunities is unaffected by gender. |
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Pandemic |
(of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
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