Coursework Topic: The correlation between GDP per capita against Life expectancy at Birth in different countries

Life expectancy at birth and GDP per capita are two major indicators of a country's development. Life expectancy is one of a main social indicators. It is the average number of years a newborn infant would be expected to live if health and living conditions at the time of its birth remained the same throughout its life. It reflects the health of a country's people and the quality of care they receive when they are …

…It is less reliable in countries that have less well developed. It is difficult to calculate and interpret in for the former centrally planned, socialist economies, where they have had a relatively small role in international trade and with few services. It hides extremes and uneven distribution of income between regions and across socio-economic groups, especially in ELDCs where there may be very few extremely wealthy people and a large majority living at subsistence level.