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