Development
Sustainable Human Development
What is Development?
Development is the improvement of the human condition so that everyone has access to their basic needs including food, water, shelter, employment, security, human rights, and human dignity
Human Development
What is "Human Development? (UNDP)
3rd World Farmer
An excellent simulation to introduce what life is like for subsistence farmersWe're winning the war against child mortality (TED-Ed: 15:30)
The Demographic Transition Model - Interactive ArcGIS Story
5 Undeniable Long-Term Trends Shaping Society’s Future (Visual Capitalist)
Aging-Urbanization-Wealth-Inequality-EnvironmentDevelopment Indicators
HDI: Human Development Index
OurWorldInData | UN Data
Life Expectancy, 2019
OurWorldInData
Literacy
OurWorldInData
Medical doctors per 1,000 people
OurWorldInData
Median Age, 2017
Wikipedia
Electrification in Africa
(NASA EO)
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
How can we make the world a better place by 2030?
(TED: 14:39)
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
UNDP SDGs Action
Atlas of SDGs 2020 - Progress (World Bank)
Project 17: A series of 5min videos of 17-year-olds and each SDG
(BBC News World Service)
Three steps to achieving SDGs
(TEDx 12min)
The global goals we've made progress on—and the ones we haven't (TED 14min)
Development Issues
3rd World Farmer
An excellent simulation to introduce what life is like for subsistence farmersEgypt's Dam Problem - Geopolitics of the Nile (Wendover 17:05)
Covid Performance Index (Lowy Institute)
Three Gorges Dam, China: Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant (TED-Ed 5:37)