🌍 Data Analysis

GDP & Life Expectancy: A Global Development Analysis

Exploring the relationship between economic output and life expectancy across 142 countries and 55 years of data.

Python Pandas Matplotlib Seaborn · Carmela Márquez

🟣 🌍 Global Development Analysis: GDP and Life Expectation

🟣 Objetivo

The objective of this analysis is to explore relationships between economic development (GDP) and life expectation across different regions, identifying patterns and potential insights.

🟣 Carga de datos

Se utiliza el dataset público de la página https://raw.githubusercontent.com/resbaz/r-novice-gapminder-files/master/data/gapminder-FiveYearData.csv

🟣 Limpieza de datos

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 1704 entries, 0 to 1703
Data columns (total 6 columns):
 #   Column     Non-Null Count  Dtype  
---  ------     --------------  -----  
 0   country    1704 non-null   object 
 1   year       1704 non-null   int64  
 2   pop        1704 non-null   float64
 3   continent  1704 non-null   object 
 4   lifeExp    1704 non-null   float64
 5   gdpPercap  1704 non-null   float64
dtypes: float64(3), int64(1), object(2)
memory usage: 80.0+ KB
Shape: (1704, 6)
Missing values:
country      0
year         0
pop          0
continent    0
lifeExp      0
gdpPercap    0
dtype: int64
Years covered: 1952–2007
Countries: 142
Rows removed: 0

Data was cleaned by removing missing values to ensure consistency.

🟣 Exploración inicial (EDA)

🟣 Visualizaciones

Analysis chart
Analysis chart

There is a positive correlation between GDP and life expectancy

🟣 Insights

=== KEY INSIGHTS ===
Highest median GDP per capita: Oceania
Highest median life expectancy: Oceania
Europe vs. Africa life expectancy gap: 24.4 years
Pearson correlation (r = 0.584): strong positive relationship

🟣 Conclusion

This analysis shows a clear relationship between economic development and life expectancy. Higher GDP per capita is generally associated with better living conditions and longer life expectancy, highlighting global inequalities between regions.