Blog #5 HDI

In this blog we were asked to study the patterns of human development.It is first important to understand what HDI is and what factors into deciding the HDI number.
There are three factors that contribute in deciding a countries' HDI. These factors include health, knowledge, and their standard of living. These factors can then be classified by other things. For example health is factored by their life expectancy at birth. Knowledge takes into account the ability that adults can read and write and it also includes the number of students enrolled in schools.The last factor called standard of living factors in the GDP.

I first looked at the geographic pattern of HDI in the world. Upon looking at the map, I noticed that places in the Western hemisphere have a higher rate of HDI and places in Africa contained the lowest HDI. One other thing I noticed was that places like Greenland didn't have any HDI because there is too cold to have a very high population.

I can infer several reasons as to why the pattern of HDI exists throughout the world for several reasons. One of these reasons is that Africa has a low HDI because most of their population affected with AIDS and most people here cannot afford the right to an education. Africa also has a low HDI because financially they are lacking and therefore cannot support a luxurious standard of living like places in the United States and Germany that have a very high HDI.

If we take a look at the past history of the HDI in Africa, one can see that the HDI is improving. I think that this can account for the fact that many churches and government agencies are providing services and financial support to the people living in Africa. Africa though still has some of the lowest HDI in the world.

Due to the problem of AIDs in Africa many people are dieing earlier and not living healthy lives. Many women in Africa are also staying at home to raise families and cannot also afford to receive an education. Many people of Africa also do not make enough money and have such large families that is hard to afford expensive things in life. This does not help a countries GDP when people are living on such low incomes and feeding large families.