Type: Set of 30 country cards Level: Primary and Secondary Purpose: To highlight global inequality and help students understand that many countries experience a different lifestyle to what we have in New Zealand. Sources: Data was obtained in July 2017 from various sources including UNHDP, World Bank, World Atlas, Worldometers, The Lancet Journal, The Economist Group and Our World in Data. All images were from Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay. Continuum Activity [Designed for a class of 30 students] Give each student in the class a country card. Decide on a measure (e.g. ). Get students to make an ordered line from lowest to highest. Ask students to call out their countries in order. Discuss any surprises or feelings after looking at the spread visually. Change the measure and examine the movement of countries. Collect the Highest [Designed for 2-6 players] Players shuffle the cards and deal them out equally. Cards are kept in a pile in the hand and players look only at their top card. The youngest player starts and chooses a measure from their country that they think may be high. They call out that measure to other players. Players take turns at calling out their statistic for that measure. The player with the highest statistic keeps all the cards (placing them under their pile. In the case of a draw, all the cards from that round are placed in the middle and the player to the left of the last caller is the new caller. The next winner gets the current cards and the cards in the middle too. Players are eliminated when they run out of cards. Extra Ideas For classes of more than 30, get students to choose a different country to research to find out about their measures to increase the cards to be used. A student could be given the task of putting the countries in order based on a specific measure. Then they could feedback to the class their findings. The winner will end up with the entire set of cards. Understanding the measures used s are current estimates. is the Human. is enrolment in primary school. Access to food is based on the Security Index. Access to is based on the Improved Source statistic. Access to is based on Care Access and Quality Index. Access to shelter is based on the level of homelessness and quality of housing. Peace and safety is based on the Global Peace Index.
New Zealand Norway Oceania Europe 4,799,490 5,330,800 268,021 km 2 304,282 km 2 18 per sq. km 16 per sq. km 13 th 1 st 82 years 82 years 100%
Germany United States Europe North America 80,636,124 325,145,963 348,672 km 2 9,833,520 km 2 232 per sq. km 33 per sq. km 4 th 10 th 81 years 79 years
England Japan Europe Asia 55,268,100 126,045,211 130,279 km 2 364,485 km 2 411 per sq. km 335 per sq. km 16 th 17 th 72 years 84 years
France Argentina Europe South America 64,938,716 44,272,125 640,427 km 2 2,736,690 km 2 123 per sq. km 14 per sq. km 21 st 45 th 82 years 76 years 98%
Russia Brazil Europe South America 143,375,006 211,243,220 16,377,742 km 2 8,460,415 km 2 8 per sq. km 24 per sq. km 49 th 79 th 71 years 75 years 93% 97%
Peru China South America Asia 32,166,473 1,388,232,693 1,279,996 km 2 9,326,410 km 2 24 per sq. km 144 per sq. km 87 th 90 th 76 years 76 years 95% 96% 92% 97%
Fiji Tonga Oceania Oceania 902,547 107,797 18,274 km 2 717 km 2 47 per sq. km 145 per sq. km 91 st 101 st 70 years 74 years 94% 93%
Egypt Palestine Africa Middle East 95,215,102 4,934,383 995,450 km 2 5,640 km 2 93 per sq. km 756 per sq. km 111 th 114 th 71 years 73 years 75% 96% 97% 89%
Philippines Honduras Asia North America 103,796,832 8,304,677 298,170 km 2 111,890 km 2 348 per sq. km 79 per sq. km 116 th 130 th 69 years 75 years 96% 89% 86% 92%
India Timor Leste Asia Asia 1,342,512,706 1,237,251 2,973,190 km 2 15,410 km 2 401 per sq. km 71 per sq. km 131 st 133 rd 68 years 68 years 72% 68% 84% 72%
Kiribati Cambodia Oceania Asia 116,405 16,076,370 811 km 2 176,515 km 2 147 per sq. km 86 per sq. km 137 th 143 th 66 years 69 years 76% 77% 85% 93%
Nepal Kenya Asia Africa 29,187,037 48,466,928 143,351 km 2 569,140 km 2 180 per sq. km 81 per sq. km 144 th 146 th 69 years 63 years 65% 78% 77% 85%
Syria Zimbabwe Middle East Africa 18,906,907 16,337,760 183,630 km 2 386,847 km 2 100 per sq. km 33 per sq. km 149 th 154 th 65 years 61 years 86% 87% 74% 93%
Papua New Guinea Oceania Solomon Islands Oceania 7,933,841 606,215 452,860 km 2 27,986 km 2 16 per sq. km 18 per sq. km 155 th 156 th 63 years 69 years 64% 84% 86% 65%
Afghanistan South Sudan Asia Africa 34,169,169 13,096,190 652,230 km 2 619,745 km 2 39 per sq. km 18 per sq. km 169 th 181 st 61 years 57 years 38% 32% 55% 26%