Activity 1.3 Use this table and the map on page 64 to answer the questions below. Country Literacy Taps inside homes Infant mortality (deaths per 1 000 births) New Zealand 99% 80% Malawi 74% 2% 95 South Africa 86% 33% 55 1. Why can literacy be used as an indicator of development? 2. What does 'taps inside homes' tell us about how people get their water? How can this be an indicator of development? 3. What can infant mortality tell us about the health care of a country? 4. Find each of the three countries in the table above on the map on page 64. a) Which one of these three countries does the map show as developed? b) Use the figures on the table above to explain why this country may be called developed while the other two are developing. 5. Look at the examples of kinds of statistics given on this page and at the caption of the photograph above. What other statistics do you think could be used as indicators of development? Think of two more indicators to add the list. 6. Compare and discuss the indicators you chose for Question 5.

Activity 1.3 Use this table and the map on page 64 to answer the questions below. Country Literacy Taps inside homes Infant mortality (deaths per 1 000 births) New Zealand 99% 80% Malawi 74% 2% 95 South Africa 86% 33% 55 1. Why can literacy be used as an indicator of development? 2. What does 'taps inside homes' tell us about how people get their water? How can this be an indicator of development? 3. What can infant mortality tell us about the health care of a country? 4. Find each of the three countries in the table above on the map on page 64. a) Which one of these three countries does the map show as developed? b) Use the figures on the table above to explain why this country may be called developed while the other two are developing. 5. Look at the examples of kinds of statistics given on this page and at the caption of the photograph above. What other statistics do you think could be used as indicators of development? Think of two more indicators to add the list. 6. Compare and discuss the indicators you chose for Question 5.