The Relationship Between
Gross Domestic Product Per Capita Income and
Child Mortality Rate, Annual Population Growth Rate
and Percent of the Population That Is Economically Active
In Developed and Developing Countries
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The theme of this project is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in four “developing”(Botswana, Chad, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe) and four “developed” ( Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States) countries, in relation to other aspects of human life such as population growth rates, child mortality rates, and percent of the population economically active over the years of 1995 through 2005. Even though GDP data have increasingly lost validity in terms of other data such as Human Development Index, and National Happiness Index, etc., it is still, for the most part, held as the measuring point for countries worldwide.
Through this project, there were a few questions I was hoping to answer such as Are GDP rates proportional to other ratings? What is the relation the GDP rates of “developing” and “developed” countries in relation to their child mortality rates, population growth rates and percent of population economically active?
A Project Presented
by
Catherine Hyman
In partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
of CALS 085, Computer Applications in Agriculture
and Life Sciences, University of Vermont
November 2009
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And my resume!
Questions or Comments? Send me an e-mail! (cahyman@uvm.edu)
