3. Disparities and Change

Syllabus Content

• Identify and explain the changing patterns and trends of regional and global disparities of life expectancy, education and income.

• Examine the progress made in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in poverty reduction, education and health.

During this Video

1. Write down the trends of global incomes and life expectancy.

2. Note any factors and specific events that may influence either of these values that are mentioned by Hans Rosling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbkSRLYSojo

FYI: The name of this graph is the Preston

Curve.

http://www.bmj.com/highwire/filestream/408836/field_highwire_fragment_image_l/0/F2.medium.gif

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends

The education index is calculated using a country’s rate of adult

literacy and combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross

enrolment ratios.

Education• Can you name an example that has shown

a rapid increase in education? Suggest reasons for the rapid nature of the increase.

• Can you name an example that has shown a decrease, either overall or for a period of time, in education? Suggest reasons possible reasons for the decrease.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/01/content_9515384.htm

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_71531.html

Research Task

• What is the global trend in income since 1950?

• Press play so that your graph produces trails for 5 countries you have already studied.

• Draw the trails on the blank graph, from the resource below.

• Annotate your graph with suggested reasons for the increases and decreases in income.

• Explain the changing patterns and trends of life expectancy in one named country.

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