To understand and explain how development is measured?

Development is measured by several different categories. Like the country's GDP or the population and the growth and death rate.

- We think that the most important for measuring development is the gross national product because it will show how much money a country makes as a whole. It shows how well the country can ship and trade with other countries worldwide. The richer the country, the more it develops. The poorer the country, it will be less developed. 

- The least important is the percentage of people employed in agriculture because it might not only be food products that are traded and made for income. It could be tourism, gadgets, clothes or more. There are also other jobs more less and more than agriculture.

- We think that number of people per doctor is quite important as it shows how much healthcare the country receives. Population growth rate is important because it shows how much people keeps getting added and infant mortality rate is how many infants are removed. It's like the same thing.

- We didn't use car ownership as it is not important because you could buy another type of vehicle like a van or a motorbike and you could still be rich.

- There should the indicator percentage of people living in a rural area or without a home. Because it is important to see how many people are still living in the streets or in the village. Because it shows us if a country is being developed as people need to have shelter and other basic needs.

-It was easy to make the decision because we all knew how important or unimportant each indicator was. We knew the first and last indicator easily but the middle ones we had some trouble as we had to discuss and rotate for awhile.

How do you think we can measure development?

We can measure development by taking a survey with some people from different countries and areas. We can see how much is their salary, or how much percentage of good agricultural land they have. If there are still a lot of people living in poverty and on the streets, you would call it ledc, but if their products are spread worldwide and are well- known and if they make a lot of income economically, it's a medc country. You can also compare the death rate, which shows that the person has a clean, healthy lifestyle.