21+Characteristics

2. **__Social Indicator__** numerous factors that may individually or collectively lead to inequalities
 * __Characteristics__**
 * 1) **__Economic Wealth__**
 * It is a measurement of development
 * It compares places by wealth
 * It measures by GNP per capitia
 * GNP=total value of goods/servies produced by a country in a year divided by the total number of people living in that country
 * Western Industralised counrty development leads to growth of wealth
 * Disadvantage of GNP is that it doesn't show the wealth of a person or place
 * **__Population__**
 * MEDC's have a lower birth rate and a slower natural increasethan LEDC's
 * Population Structures MEDC's have a smaller portion of children aged 15 and higher porportion of people aged of 65 than developing countries.
 * **__Health__**
 * MEDC's have a lower infant mortality rate, a longer life expectancy and fewer people per the doctor than the LEDC's
 * **__Other Indicators__**
 * adult literacy
 * diet
 * employment structures
 * energy consumption
 * related to wealth
 * Country must increase GNP to:
 * improve standard of living
 * quality of life inhabitions
 * **__Causes of inequality__**