Material Wellbeing

What is material well-being?

• A developing/poor country has a low material well-being.

• Material well-being in Australia is high as we have allot of things e.g. Cars, houses, buildings etc.

• In developing countries they don’t have much as money as richer countries

Advanced economies (Blue) Emerging and developing economies (Orange) Emerging economies (Red)

A list of developing/emerging countries• Outlook Report, April 2010.• Afghanistan• Albania• Algeria• Angola• Antigua and Barbuda• Argentina• Armenia• Azerbaijan• The Bahamas• Bahrain• Bangladesh• Barbados• Belarus• Belize• Benin• Bhutan• Bolivia• Botswana• Bosnia and Herzegovina• Brazil• Bulgaria• Burkina Faso• Burma• Burundi• Cameroon• Cape Verde

• Central African Republic• Chad• Chile• China• Colombia• Comoros• Democratic Republic of the Congo• Republic of the Congo• Costa Rica• Côte d'Ivoire• Croatia• Djibouti• Dominica• Dominican Republic• Ecuador• Egypt• El Salvador• Equatorial Guinea• Eritrea• Estonia• Ethiopia• Fiji• Gabon• The Gambia• Georgia• Ghana• Grenada• Guatemala• Guinea• Guinea-Bissau• Guyana• Haiti• Honduras• Hungary

• Indonesia• India• Iran• Iraq• Jamaica• Jordan• Kazakhstan• Kenya• Kiribati• Kuwait• Kyrgyzstan• Laos• Latvia• Lebanon• Lesotho• Liberia• Libya• Lithuania• Macedonia

• Madagascar• Malawi• Malaysia• Maldives• Mali• Marshall Islands• Mauritania• Mauritius• Mexico• Federated States of Micronesia• Moldova• Mongolia• Montenegro• Morocco• Mozambique• Namibia• Nauru• Nepal• Nicaragua• Niger• Nigeria• Oman• Pakistan• Palau• Panama• Papua New Guinea• Paraguay• Peru• Philippines

• Poland• Qatar• Romania• Russia • Rwanda• Saudi Arabia• Saint Vincent and the

Grenadines• Samoa• São Tomé and

Príncipe• Senegal• Serbia• Seychelles• Sierra Leone Solomon

Islands• South Africa• Somalia• Sri Lanka

• Thailand• Timor-Leste• Togo• Tonga• Trinidad and Tobago• Tunisia• Turkey• Turkmenistan• Tuvalu• Uganda• Ukraine• United Arab Emirates• Uruguay• Uzbekistan• Vanuatu• Venezuela• Vietnam• Yemen• Zambia• Zimbabwe

How would you remember it?

•I remember it because it has a similar meaning to things you own and I have allot.

What is Material Wellbeing

a) Things you own

b) Developing countries

c) The amount of things countries have

d) Things you want to have.