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Tag: GNI

  • Social Indicators of Development

    The main social indicators of development include education, health, employment rates and gender equality.

  • Equatorial Guinea – High Income but Low Human Development (2017)

    Since the 1990s, Equatorial Guinea has become one of the largest oil producing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is now the richest country per capita in Africa. It ranks 43rd in the world for gross domestic product per capita. However,  the oil revenue is distributed very unequally and most people see no benefit from…

  • Economic Indicators of Development

    International organisations such as the World Bank prefer to measure development using economic indicators. There are three main economic indicators which are used to give an indication of the overall economic health of a country. This post has primarily been written for students studying the Global Development option for A-level Sociology. Three Economic Indicators of…

  • America – A Less Developed Country?

    The United States ranks either at the top, or very near the top on several of the main development indicators used by the World Bank and the United Nations, but if you look more closely you find that the United States might not be so ‘developed’ after all. This post starts out by exploring the seemingly…