Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, infant mortality, literacy rate, and natural increase.

Purchasing power, access to safe drinking water, Crude Birth Rate (CBR), and type of government.

Gross National Product (GNP), growth rate, Natural Increase Rate (NIR), and literacy.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, life expectancy, literacy rate, and HIV infections per capita.

Per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), life expectancy, literacy rate, and average years of education.

The standard of living has generally been rising.

An increasing percentage of the population living in cities.

Extreme disparities in income exist between rich and poor.

Large portions of the population engaged in agricultural activity.

Large portions of the population are highly skilled and educated.

Primary (working with and extracting raw materials, such as farming & mining)

Quinary (government and public services)

Tertiary (services- admin, transport, education, businesses)

Secondary (manufacturing and industry)

Quaternary (IT and research)

Primary (e.g. farming)

Tertiary (e.g. working as a doctor in a hospital)

Quaternary (e.g. research at a university)

Quinary (e.g. working in the government)

Secondary (e.g. manufacturing car parts)

Low Crude Birth Rate (CBR).

High infant mortality rate of 57 deaths per 1000 births.

Natural increase of less than 2%.

Twenty-five percent of the population below age 15.

Life expectancy of only 60 years.

Nigeria.

China.

Peru.

Egypt.

Germany.

Literacy rate.

Life expectancy.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Birth rate.

Energy production per capita.

Total household, business and government income minus taxes.

The value of all goods and service that the citizens of a county produced in a given year regardless of where they live.

The income earned by a country's people.

The value of a country's exports minus their imports.

The value of all goods and service produced within a country in a given year.

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high

medium

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