LifeExp: LifeExp: Health Observations in 21 Countries

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LifeExp: Health Observations in 21 Countries

Description

The life expectancy reported in 2015 and observations related to health were collected for approximately 200 countries. The 21 countries in this data set were randomly selected and are from Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, and Oceania.

Usage

LifeExp

Format

A data frame with 21 observations (rows) and 9 variables (columns).

	Column name	Data type	Description	Values
[,1]	country	factor	21 countries from 5 continents	(Argentina...Zambia)
[,2]	pop	integer	Population in thousands in 2015	(179 - 229965)
[,3]	growth	numeric	The annual growth rate in % (2005-2015)	(-0.6 - 8.7)
[,4]	fert06	numeric	The total fertility rate in 2006	(1.2 - 7.5)
[,5]	fert15	numeric	The total fertility rate in 2015	(1.4 - 7.1)
[,6]	lifeexp	integer	The life expectancy in years	(48 - 82)
[,7]	health	integer	Per capita total expenditure on health	(21 - 6988)
[,8]	water	integer	Percent using improved drinking-water sources	(47 - 100)
[,9]	alcohol	numeric	Alcohol consumption	(0.05 - 16.2)

• The per capita total expenditure on health, health, is the average exchange rate (US$) in 2014.

• water is the percentage of the population that used improved drinking-water sources in 2014.

• The data in alcohol is from 2011 and gives the alcohol consumption in litres per person among adults aged 15 years.

Examples

# A short summary of the variables
summary(LifeExp)

# Scatterplot matrix with all variables
pairs(LifeExp)

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