S1 Project

Is There a Link? You will be given the following data on different countries: size of population; GDP per capita; life expectancy; infant mortality rate; area. Plan 1) To begin with Reece and I thought about comparing the statistics between life expectancy and GDP per capita for smaller countries compared to larger countries. We think that the higher the GDP per capita the higher the life expectancy because if you have a higher income, youll generally have better health care meaning better treatment from life threatening illnesses etc, and therefore a higher life expectancy. We used data from a spreadsheet of countries showing their population, area, life expectancy, GDP per capita and infant mortality. This was taken from the IDB website and is therefore a reliable source to use. Of course, were this to be a more improved study with more time, we would use a variety of sources to compile our final dataset. The explanatory variable is the GDP per capita as this is that data that the life expectancy will rely on meaning that the life expectancy is the dependant variable. We are going to look at scatter diagrams comparing the two datasets to analyse the link between the them.

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Interpretation 6) With these 2 scatter diagrams we decided to just use one because we felt that interpreting the graph for over 10 million would produce better results and trends and it would be easier to decipher

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conclusions from one graph. As you can see, between around 0-6000 GDP per capita, there is a very strong positive correlation of 0.6322. This would be because there would be a huge difference in health care etc. After 6000 GDP per capita, the data straightens out and becomes very close to a straight line, with a PMCC of 0.43. There are a few anomilies in the graphs in particular in the graph of over 10 million population there is one country with a GDP of 43444, but this is because the USA is a very wealthy country, however it does not have the highest life expectancy. As you can see though the life expectancies do increase as the GDP increases, due to the health care connetations, in our opinions. Also what was quite interesting is that South Africa has a relatively high GDP per capita, compared to the rest of the data, at 12796, but has a very low life expectancy of 42 years. This could be due to temperature of the country or that it has lots of different environmental areas from urban cities to dust lands with no clean water or food. There are a lot of limitations to our data and conclusions as there are many factors that could affect the data. These factors could be the fact that say with a country like the UK, we have the NHS meaning that even though the GDP per capita may be low, we still have a relatively good health system which means that even if you have low income, you still can receive health care to cure illnesses, therefore increasing life expectancy. This is different in other countries like South Africa.

A graph to show the life expectancies of countries with a population of more than 10 million against their GDP per capita.

A graph to show the life expectancies of countries with a population of less than 10 million against their GDP per capita.

A graph to show the life expectancies of countries with a population of more than 10 million against their GDP per capita (below 6000).

Y=0.005094x+45.18 : therefore as the the GDP per capita goes up 1000 dollars, life expectancy goes up 5.9 years. A graph to show the life expectancies of countries with a population of more than 10 million against their GDP per capita (over 6000).

y=0.0002797x+67.86 as the GDP per capita goes up by 1000 dollar, the life expectancy increases by 0.27 years.