EconomicsCode 9708
Characteristics of countries at different levels of development
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- population growth and structure: the ways birth rate, death rate, infant mortality and net migration are measured, and the reasons these figures shift; optimum population; level of urbanisation
- how income is spread across a population: working out the Gini coefficient and analysing a Lorenz curve
- how the economy is organised: the makeup of jobs across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors; the trading patterns found at each level of development