Geography Terms
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| Life expectancy | The average number of years that a person can expect to live.
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| Quantitative data | Any information that can be recorded as numbers.
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| Qualitative data | Any information that can be recorded in words.
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| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | Total monetary value of all the goods and services produced by a country over a specific time period.
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| Literacy rates | Statistical measure of the percentage of people in an area or population that can read and write.
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| Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) | International economic organisation of 34 countries, set up in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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| Human Development Index (HDI) | Tool developed by the United Nations to grade and rank the social and economic development of the world's countries in order from most to least developed. - measures human wellbeing
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| Choropleth maps | Map showing change in particular data across an area by using shades of the same colour.
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| Cartogram | Type of map distorted to show a representation of statistical data.
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | Software application designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage and present geographical information of all kinds.
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| Scatter plot | Type of graph showing two sets of data by plotted points along two axes, the pattern of which shows their correlation.
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| Correlation | Statistical measure indicating the extent to which variables are related.
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| Fertility rates | Statistical measure of the average number of children women in a particular area will have throughout their lives.
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