Money = good health. The more money an economy has, the higher life expectancy that nation has.
There are huge differences between the richest and poorest countries with the highest life expectancy (Monaco - 87.2 years) and the poorest with the lowest life expectancy (Sierra Leone - 47.5 years).
Two examples of poor economies:
Kosovo (GDP: $13.53 billion)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (GDP: $18.15 billion)
Two examples of emerging economies:
Romania (GDP: $288.5 billion)
China (GDP: $9.182 trillion)
Two examples of developed economies:
The Netherlands (GDP: $717.146 billion)
Japan (GDP: $4.835 trillion)
4. Describe the overall trend in figure 10.1.
The figure 10.1 shows the life expectancy at birth in Western Europe, North America, Oceania, Central America, South America, Middle East and North Africa, Asia (excluding Middle East), Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa and Southern Africa and how it’s changed from the years 1950 to 2005. As seen in the figure, most of the countries life expectancies are rising, with the exception of Southern Africa.
The diagram implies that Oceania’s life expectancy has raised significantly by over 10 years, and has been consistently going up by around .5 years every 5 years (with the exception on 1975 - 1980 where there was a large leap of around 2 years), since 1950.
Towards the bottom of the figure, you can see that Western Africa’s life expectancy has risen from around 37 in 1950 to 50 years old in 2005. That’s an increase of around 13 years which is larger than that of Oceania.
Most of the regions are going up according to the diagram, but southern Africa is an exemption. It was going up in 1950, from 45+, but in 1990 when the life expectancy was at around 62, there was a dramatic drop to around 47 and is still decreasing.