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| populated area of the world |
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| the number of people living in a given area; calculated by dividing the population by its area |
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| cananda's population density |
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| Canada's percent living in area |
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| a measure of how much nutrition in calories can be produced from a certain area; an area with fertile soil and adequate temp and precipitation will have a higher nutritional density than an area such as Canada's North |
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| Canada's nutritional density |
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| the UNs index used to rank standards of living in its member countires |
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| a measure comparing how well people live in different countries based on three indicators |
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| The measurement of the standard of living standards |
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life expectancy
literacy rate
gross domestic product (GDP) per capita |
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| gross domestic product, or the total value of all good and services produced in a country in one year, divided by the population |
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| non- governmental organization |
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| structures such as roads, railways, power grids, and communication links that are basic to the functioning of a modern economy as well as buildings such as schools and hospitals |
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| heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) |
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| countries at the low end of the UN Human Development Index that are in debt to developed nations |
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| Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) |
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| eight goals deveoloped by the member states of the UN to close the gap |
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| death rate, calculated as number of deaths per 1000 people in a population |
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| poor, or lack of, nourishment |
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| multinational corporations - companies that do business in more than one countries |
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