Gapminder Screencast and Analysis

1. 
   a. As life expectancy increases, GDP per capita increases
       As the % of girls competing primary school increases, children per woman decreases
   b. Life expectancy means better health, which is crucial to economic development. GDP per capita shows the wealth of the country. % of girls completing primary school shows the level of education a place has. More education usually relates to more development. The less children per woman, the higher the country is in the demographic transition, therefore, more economically developed.

2.
   a. life expectancy/GDP - going back to the 1800's, the top countries were almost identical as they are today. These countries include Europe, the U.S., and East Asia. The African countries were and are at the bottom of the graph. In addition, some of the Middle Eastern countries are at the top of the graph today because of oil/gas exports.


       school/children per woman - The pattern of this is much alike that of the first one. The core countries have a higher primary school completion rate and less children per woman than the periphery does. As the countries develop, the will have less children per woman and a higher primary school completion rate.
   b. life expectancy/GDP - The countries with low life expectancy/low GDP are that way because they don't have the education, health, or technology that the core countries have. These factors all correlate to economic development. Their jobs mostly consist of primary type jobs. 
       school/children per woman - These factors go hand-in-hand with the life expectancy factor because they both rely on each other. As technology diffuses to LDC's, more women can attend school and in turn, have less children.