Two Useful Indicators of Overall Health in a Country or Region

question 1

Multiple Choice

Two useful indicators of overall health in a country or region are ____.

• A) birth rate and death rate
• B) replacement-level fertility rate and total fertility rate
• C) life expectancy and death rate
• D) life expectancy and infant mortality rate
• E) population growth rate and death rate

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Definitions:

Volume Of Operations

The scale or magnitude of the business activities that a company carries out in a specific period.

Sunk Costs

Costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered, and thus should not be considered in new decision making.

Financing Costs

Expenses incurred by a company to finance its operations or to raise capital, such as interest payments on loans.

Inflation Effects

The impact of the general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money on financial instruments and investments.