BEDOK VIEW For A Better Future

SECONDARY SCHOOL
Humanities Ong L.K

Name: ___________________________ Class: _______ Date: _________

Instructions:
Fill in this worksheet as you watch the Flash presentation on the Human Development
Index statistics in our world today.
Hand in to your Geography teacher the next lesson.

1. World Income Distribution

Daily income is measured in _________. It varies from below $__ to above $____ a day.
Income is very unequally distributed across the world. The richest 20 % have ____% of the
income, whereas the poorest 20% have only ___%.

In 1970, ____ billion people or 38% of the world population lived below the poverty line. By
1990, the poverty rate fell to 26%, but the number of poor still remains the same due to
_____________ ___________. The UN goal is to halve this proportion to ____% in 2015.

2. Regional Income Distribution

In Africa, 420 million or ____% of the population live below the poverty line.
In Latin America, ____ million of 8% of the population live below the poverty line.
In ______ _________, 10 million or 2% of the population live below the poverty line.
In East Asia, ______ million or 20% live below the poverty line.
In South Asia, 330 million or _____% live below the poverty line.

3. Poverty Distribution

In 1970, ____% of the poor lived in South and East Asia.

By 2000, a _________ of the world’s poor live in Africa, 28% in ______ ________, and
_____% in East Asia. In 2015, Africa would account for _____% of the world poverty.

4. Regional Differences in health and income

GDP per capita measures ________ __________ per year. The percent of children
surviving till age 5 reflects the _________ of the whole population.
In Africa, only ____% of children survive beyond their 5th birthday.
In 1975, child survival was lower in all regions. Africa had _________ average income than
East Asia, but _________ child survival rates.
In 2003, Africa is poorer, with similar child survival rates to 25 years ago.

5. Child deaths

In 1990, about ____ million children died. The UN goal is to decrease child death rates in
1990 by two thirds to __ million by 2015. But in 2003, __ million more children should have
survived. If the trend continues like this, by 2015, there would be ____ million child deaths
more than the target mark set by the UN.