We want to
compare the living conditions and values in India, Canada and Norway by using
their scores on the following areas of society: fertility rate, child mortality
rate, GDP (gross domestic product) and gender equality, (where 0 is total equality between
genders, and 1 is no equality at all).
We see from
the table that India differs quite dramatically from Canada and Norway on these
important areas of society. This is not unexpected as Canada and Norway are
highly developed economies while India is still a developing country. GDP per
capita in Norway is eleven times higher than in India (eight times higher in
Canada). We also see that India has a much higher child mortality rate compered
to the two other countries. Child mortality rate is a good indication of
poverty.
When it
comes to values we have decided to focus on gender equality. From the table we
clearly see that the inequality in India is much larger than in both Canada and
Norway. But we can also read from the table that Norway scores much better in
this area compared to Canada. In other words women and men in Norway are more
equal than in Canada, which again has much more gender equality than
India. All these three countries value their culture. Culture and religion is a big part of peoples daily life i these three countries.
India
|
Canada
|
Norway
|
|
Fertility
rate
|
2.4
|
1.7
|
1.8
|
Child
mortality rate
|
5.3%
|
0.5%
|
0.3%
|
GDP per
capita
|
5 707
dollars
|
44 088
dollars
|
64 893
dollars
|
Gender
equality
|
0.160
|
0.119
|
0.065
|
Sources:
http://globalis.no/Land/Sammenlign-land - downloaded from Globalis.no
1.12.15
http://globalis.no/Land/Sammenlign-land/%28country1%29/213/%28country2%29/375 - downloaded from globalis.no
1.12.15
GDP per
capita statistics http://globalis.no/Statistikk/BNP-per-innbygger-i-PPP - downloaded 1.12.15
