Variables | Symbols | Measurements | Data sources |
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Infant mortality rate | INF | Number of infants dying before reaching one year per 1000 live births | World Development Indicators [87] |
Child mortality rate | CM | Probability of newborn babies dying before reaching five years per 1000 live births in a provided year | World Development Indicators [87] |
Public health expenditure | PUH | Percentage of GDP | World Development Indicators [87] |
Number of physician | PHY | Number of physicians per 1000 people | World Development Indicators [87] |
HIV prevalence rate | HIV | Percentage of the population ages 15–49 years living with HIV | Human Development Reports [32] |
Gross domestic product | GDP | Current US$ | World Development Indicators [87] |
Education | EDU | The expected years of schooling | Human Development Reports [32] |
Good governance | GG | Average rank of six vital indicators as government effectiveness, voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence/terrorism, rule of law, control of corruption, and regulatory quality | World Governance Indicators [88] |
Globalization | GLOB | Measures of the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation of a country over a longer period of time which is a composite index on a scale of 1–100, where 1 denotes the least and 100 denotes the most globalised | KOF Globalisation Index [44] |