Abstract:

Life expectancy at birth, which is an important indicator of the health and welfare level of a society, expresses the average number of years an individual born in a given year will live. At the same time, it is closely related to the opportunity of individuals and society to benefit from the health services offered in the country or region. Life expectancy at birth is an important part of human development and is an important criterion that is often used to compare countries' health levels. Increases in life expectancy make significant contributions to human capital, while also accelerating economic growth and development. The aim of this study is to determine the factors affecting life expectancy at birth in E-7 countries (Brazil, Mexico, India, China, Indonesia, Turkey and Russia) in the period 1991-2019. While life expectancy at birth is used as the dependent variable in the study, the variables of urbanization rate, unemployment rate, crude birth rate and GDP per capita constitute the independent variables. Westerlund (2006) panel cointegration test was used to test the relationship between the variables. The cointegration coefficients were estimated by the AMG test proposed by Eberhardt and Bond (2009). As a result of the research, it was found that the panel results consisting of E-7 countries were statistically insignificant at the 5% level. The fact that the panel results are statistically insignificant is due to the heterogeneity of the analyzed country group. However, in country-based evaluations, it was concluded that the factors affecting life expectancy at birth in E-7 countries vary according to countries.

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