Blog Topic # 7

HDI takes into consideration three main concepts to determine how well a country is keeping its citizens. Health, knowledge, and a decent standard of living are the three categories. Health is measured by life expectancy at birth; knowledge is measured by a combination of the adult literacy rate and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrolment ratio; and standard of living by GDP per capita. This seems to be relatively close to the division between developed and developing countries, and its seems the same countries of each list. Sub-Saharan Africa is ranked so low because they do not yet have capabilities and access to the technological advances that help in the three areas. Money is a key factor. Education, health, and standards of living are all directly associated with money. The money in these countries is not spread around very well and stayes in the hands of a few. They do not have the health advantages that developed countries have, which is why their life expectancy birth rate is so low.