Edexcel A Level Geography Paper 3 June 2025 question paper 9GE0/03

Explain why global agreements are vital if the environmental challenges of climate change are to be met.

Table 1 below shows data for the GDP per capita of 12 countries systematically sampled from the members of the United Nations from the highest GDP per capita (Luxembourg) to the lowest GDP per capita (Sierra Leone) and the World Happiness scores for the same 12 countries.

The World Happiness score is based on individuals’ own assessments of their lives in that country.

Calculate d² for Latvia.

Using Table 1 and the formula below, calculate the r_s for this data.

Answer to two decimal places.

You must show your working.

Explain why this statistical result may not be a reliable indicator of the relationship between the GDP per capita of a country and the happiness of its population.

Study Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3 in Section A of the Resource Booklet.

Analyse the changing patterns of power in the world since 1945.

Study Figure 4 and Figure 5 in Section A of the Resource Booklet.

Analyse the role of global institutions in managing economic and political relations in the post-war world (1945 – present).

Study the resources in Section B of the Resource Booklet.

Evaluate the view that China is more likely than India to become a global superpower by the middle of this century.

You should have read the whole of the Resource Booklet, including Section C, before attempting this question.

Evaluate the view that there is no serious challenge to the status of the USA as the world’s dominant economic, military and political superpower.