Where in the world is wealth?
Step 1: Go to the ArcGIS Online map, Resource Consumption and Wealth, and explore the map.
- Which regions of the world earn the highest annual salaries?
- What are some of the top-earning countries?
Step 2: In the Details pane, click the Show Contents of Map button.
Step 3: Point to the Gross National Income by Country, 2014 layer, and click the Show Table button.
Step 4: In the table, click the Gross National Income Per Capita, PPP column header, and sort descending.
- What countries have the top five highest gross national income (GNI) earnings in the table?
- What are the lowest GNI earning countries? Hint: In the same column, sort ascending.
What are the adverse effects of high and low wages?
- What are some environmental issues that developed countries face?
- What are some environmental issues that emerging countries face?
Who leaves the lights on?
Step 5: Click the checkbox to the left of the layer name, Energy Use By Country, 2010.
- Per capita, what countries consume the most energy?
Energy use is a good indicator of industrial productivity.
- There is a correlation between life expectancy and adult literacy in relation to low-energy-consuming countries. Countries using less mechanized labor often attend less school and live shorter lives. (T/F)
What does human quality of life look like in different countries?
The Human Development Index (HDI) combines several country statistics to monitor progress toward improving the quality of human life.
Step 6: Turn off all selected layers, and turn on the Human Development Index by Country, 1980-2010 Time Series layer. Notice a new time slider bar appears at the bottom of the map.
- What areas of the world have made improvements?
- What do you think has contributed to this growth?
How do earnings and energy consumption vary with human development?
- How does GNI relate to HDI countries pre-2010?
- How does GNI relate to countries with high HDI after 2010?