This chart compares Life Expectancy & GDP per capita of 182 nations in the year 2013. Each bubble is a country. Size is population. Color is region.
People live longer in countries with a higher GDP per capita. No high income countries have really short life expectancy, and no low income countries have very long life expectancy. Still, there is a huge difference in life expectancy between countries on the same income level. Most people live in Middle Income countries where difference in lifespan is huge between countries; depending on how income is distributed and how it is used.
Click here to download. Suitable for print. The chart was produced in November 2014 and revised in March 2015.
DATA SOURCES
The chart shows last year’s numbers because it takes time for all countries to collect and publish the latest statistics.
INCOME DATA: World Bank’s GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international $), Jan 14 2015, with a few additions by Gapminder. The x-axis uses a log-scale so that doubling incomes show the same distance on all levels.
LIFE EXPECTANCY: IHME 2014, available at http://vizhub.healthdata.org/le/, Jan 14 2015.
POPULATION: UN World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision.
INTERACTIVE TOOL
A free interactive version of this chart is available online at www.gapminder.org/tools, which lets you play historic time series & compare other indicators.
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