Abstract:

While life expectancy at birth is defined as the average time an individual survives, it is accepted as one of the important indicators of a society's health status and welfare level. The aim of the study is to analyze the determinants of life expectancy at birth with panel data analysis methods for MINT countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) based on the 2000-2019 period. For this purpose, life expectancy at birth is the dependent variable, and per capita gross domestic product (GDP), urbanization rate and crude birth rate are used as independent variables. Westerlund and Edgerton (2008) panel cointegration test was used as econometric method. The analysis findings obtained from the AMG and CCE estimator showed that the effects of per capita income and urbanization on life expectancy at birth were statistically significant in MINT countries; cointegration coefficient of crude birth rate shows that it is statistically insignificant.

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