Life Expectancy

THEORY

Definition: Life expectancy is the average number of years a person can expect to live, if in the future they experience the current age-specific mortality rates in the population.

Principal categories of variables that influence life expectancy are,

• Technology,

• Education,

• Disposable income

• Urbanization,

• Inequality,

• Healthcare,

• Health risks/epidemics,

Definition: Public health expenditure consists of recurrent and capital spending from government (central and local) budgets, external borrowings and grants (including donations from international agencies and nongovernmental organizations), and social (or compulsory) health insurance funds.

In the regression analysis, an attempt has been made to incorporate public health expenditure as a variable that influences life expectancy independently. The variables have been acquired from the Human Development Report (HDI 1990-2010).

It is expected that the variable described above, will have a positive effect on life expectancy.

DATA

YEAR LIFE EXPECTANCY (Y)

(years) PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ON HEALTH (X)

(% of GDP)

1990 59 0.7

1991 59.1 0.7

1992 59.1 0.8

1993 59.1 0.7

1994 59.7 0.9

1995 60.4 0.9

1996 60.7 1

1997 61.3 1.1

1998 61.6 1.1

1999 62.6 0.9

2000 62.9 0.9

2001 62.9 0.9

2002 63.3 1.1

2003 63.3 1.2

2004 63.7 1.3

2005 63.3 1.1

2006 63.6 1.2

2007 63.7 1.3

2009 63.4 1.2

2010 64.4 1.4

SOURCE: www.hdr.undp.org

REGRESSION ANALYSIS

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