Empirical evidence has been inconclusive about the strength of the connection between health care spending and health outcomes. This paper uses the Health Nutrition and Population Statistics data from the World Bank to model the correlation between health expenditure percent of Gross National Income (GNI) and death rate, incidence of HIV, life expectancy at birth, malnutrition prevalence, mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes, or CRD, number of infant deaths, number of maternal deaths, number of people who are undernourished, and percent of the population that use at least basic sanitation services.

In order to replicate this project, follow these steps:

1. Visit the World Bank's Health Nutrition and Population Statistics DataBank page
2. Select all countries under the 'Country' tab
3. Select variables to be tested: all 428 variables
4. Select the years to be included in the model: 2020 - 2021
5. Download the selected data using the dropdown box in the upper right corner: CSV format
6. The code used in this project can be found here