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Measuring Development
Working out how developed a country is, is not straightforward. When we make a judgement about whether a country's citizens have the resources to meet their daily needs we are assessing their quality of . One way to do this is to consider the country's GNP or gross national which is the total value of all the goods and services that the country produces. Another is to look at its score on the HDI or human which considers things like expectancy and how many years people get to spend in . A few countries that don't think that economic growth is so important even measure the happiness of their people! When countries are categorised according to how developed they are, geographers use a special label for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, referring to them as while other countries are considered to be either HICs (high income countries) or , or low income developing countries. This isn't always very helpful as it can mask significant where, for example, great wealth is in the hands of a small number of people.