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1 Type: Set of 30 country cards Level: Primary and Secondary Purpose: To highlight global inequality and help students understand that countries like South Sudan 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. Information Sources Statistics were obtained in October 2018 from the following sources: World Bank, World Factbook, United Nations Development Programme,

2 In 2019, the Caritas education focus is on South Sudan where more than four million people have been displaced from their homes as a result of conflict, drought and food insecurity. When using these activity cards, it is encouraged that New Zealand and South Sudan will be highlighted in terms of where they are placed on the global continuum.

3 New Zealand Norway Oceania Europe 82 years 82 years 99% 117% 113% 12.5 years 12.7 years 7.2% 6.9% 1.5% 3.5% 99.2% 98.1% $60,014 NZD $117,025 NZD 0.5% 0.3% 121% 108%

4 Germany United States Europe North America 81 years 79 years 99% 103% 98% 13.2 years 13.2 years 4.9% 4.9% 1.6% 1.3% 99.2% $66,975 NZD $89,736 NZD 0.4% 0.7% 129% 122%

5 England Japan Europe Asia 72 years 84 years 99% 99% 128% 102% 13.3 years 12.5 years 5.6% 3.6% 0.6% 0.0% 99.2% $62,416 NZD $59,367 NZD 0.4% 0.3% 120% 133%

6 France Argentina Europe South America 82 years 76 years 99% 98% 111% 107% 11.6 years 9.8 years 5.5% 5.9% 0.2% 34.4% 98.7% 96.4% $58,474 NZD $20,082 NZD 0.4% 1.4% 106% 140%

7 Russia Brazil Europe South America 71 years 75 years 99% 93% 105% 12.0 years 7.8 years 4.1% 5.9% 7.0% 8.7% 72.2% 82.8% $14,214 NZD $13,213 NZD 1.0% 1.4% 158% 113%

8 Peru China South America Asia 76 years 76 years 95% 96% 96% 94% 9.0 years 7.6 years 3.8% 4.0% 3.6% 2.0% 94.9% 76.2% 76.5% $9,194 NZD $13,383 NZD 1.8% 1.4% 121% 105%

9 Fiji Tonga Oceania Oceania 70 years 74 years 94% 99% 89% 90% 10.5 years 11.1 years 4.1% 4.9% 3.9% 2.6% 98.6% 97.0% 91.1% 91.0% $7,654 NZD $6,175 NZD 2.2% 1.3% 114% 98%

10 Egypt Palestine Africa Middle East 71 years 73 years 75% 96% 86% 85% 7.1 years 8.9 years 3.8% 5.7% 13.8% 0.6% 62.0% 94.7% 89.0% $4,635 NZD $4,897 NZD 2.1% 2.2% 106% 88%

11 Philippines Honduras Asia North America 69 years 75 years 96% 89% 88% 75% 9.3 years 6.2 years 2.7% 5.9% 1.8% 2.7% 91.0% 87.6% 73.9% 82.6% $5,636 NZD $3,465 NZD 3.0% 2.3% 110% 89%

12 India Timor Leste Asia Asia 68 years 68 years 72% 68% 74% 77% 6.3 years 4.4 years 3.8% 10.1% 4.9% 0.0% 84.5% 34.0% 39.6% 40.6% $2,803 NZD $2,757 NZD 5.6% 5.7% 87% 119%

13 Kiribati Cambodia Oceania Asia 66 years 69 years 76% 77% 87% 45% 7.8 years 4.7 years 11.0% 1.9% 1.9% 3.0% 84.9% 49.8% 39.7% 42.4% $4,281 NZD $1,894 NZD 6.0% 4.0% 40% 116%

14 Nepal Kenya Asia Africa 69 years 63 years 65% 78% 70% 60% 4.1 years 6.3 years 3.7% 6.7% 8.8% 6.3% 90.7% 56.0% 45.8% 30.1% $1,217 NZD $2,218 NZD 4.2% 7.3% 123% 86%

15 Syria Zimbabwe Middle East Africa 65 years 61 years 86% 87% 50% 48% 5.1 years 7.7 years 5.1% 7.5% 27.1% 4.8% 81% 38.2% 95.7% 36.8% $1,232 NZD $1,401 NZD 4.1% 9.0% 86% 85%

16 Papua New Guinea Oceania Solomon Islands Oceania 63 years 69 years 64% 84% 40% 48% 4.3 years 5.3 years 4.0% 7.3% 6.7% 0.5% 22.9% 47.9% 18.9% 29.8% $3,711 NZD $2,957 NZD 6.3% 3.1% 75% 76%

17 Afghanistan South Sudan Asia Africa 61 years 57 years 38% 32% 56% 10% 3.5 years 4.8 years 3.1% 3.0% 2.2% 380.0% 84.1% 1.0% 31.9% 6.9% $878 NZD $2,898 NZD 9.9% 9.3% 67% 21%

18 New Zealand 82 years 99% 117% 12.5 years 7.2% 1.5% 99.2% $60,014 NZD 0.5% 121% South Sudan 57 years 32% 10% 4.8 years 3.0% 380.0% 1.0% 6.9% $2,898 NZD 9.3% 21% How does life compare between South Sudan and New Zealand?