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 World Development:

Life expectancies
     
Key ideas from the WJEC AS World Development specification:
  • Definitions of poverty lead to measurements of poverty. These involve either quantitative or qualitative assessments of the distribution of wealth and attempts to indicate economic growth or social factors.
  • There are indicators of Group National Product (GNP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), life expectancy, mortality rates, provision of water and sanitation, literacy, health services quality of life and population. These measurements reflect the interests of those compiling them.
  • Case studies of different attitudes to life expectancies in two contrasting areas.
The meaning of life expectancy?  
Calculate your own life expectancy http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/tools/living_100.shtml
World Bank Learning module on life expectancy. http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/modules/social/life/
World Bank development terms glossary. http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/modules/glossary.htm
   
Maps

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World map of Life expectancy from the World Policy Institute, New York http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/econindex.html

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Sequence of world maps showing life expectancies  1900, 1930,  1960 & 1990 http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/life-exp.htm
   
Statistics

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US Census Bureau Not just for the US, but all nations of the world. Probably the best world stats site. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/
WHO (World Health Organization) http://www.who.int
Whosis - the statistical information arm of the WHO http://www.who.int/whosis/
   
US Government National Center for Health Statistics site gives you all the health-related data you could ever want for USA only. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/Default.htm
Birth, infant mortality and life expectancy page. US only. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/SSBR/023tab.htm
India Census results from India's Ministry of Home Affairs. Information from the 2001 Census is now coming online. Includes maps. http://www.censusindia.net/
   
Comment

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WHO on life expectancy - women in SE Asian countries http://w3.whosea.org/women/ch1.htm
Nepal news story from UNDP. http://www.undp.org.np/news/news055.htm
NepalNews.com life expectancy story http://www.nepalnews.com
UK North/South life expectancy gap grows wider http://www.guardian.co.uk/northsouth/article/0,2763,1328652,00.html
 

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