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Analysis of Correlations

People can describe/understand globalization in different dimensions due to the variety of their careers, family background, value of belief, ethnic and the nations they come from. As global citizens, we must learn to think in different perspectives and to be omniscient instead of biased. Below is my collection of driving forces and consequences of globalization as observed from leading dimensions.

Positive Correlation:

As the income/person (GDP/capita) increases, the overall access of the improved water source apparently increases as well. Luxembourg, country of the highest GDP in the world, has a perfect percetage of 100% in access to water; while Somalia, country of the lowest GDP, suffers from the least access of water with an percentage of 30%

However, the slope becomes less steep as income/person (GDP/capita) exceeds 5000 (PPP$ inflation adjusted) because with or over the standard most countries are able to have most/all of their territory satisfied with improved access of water.

Negative Correlation:

As the income/person (GDP/Capita) increases, the child mortality (0-5 year-olds dying per 1,000 born) decreases. Norway has one of the highest GDPs in the world of 62,950 (PPP$ Inflation adjusted), and consequently, the extreme low child mortality of 3.2 / 1,000 born. On the other hand, Malawi, with a relatively low GDP of 737 (PPP$ Inflation adjusted), ranks high in child mortality with a rate of 92 / 1,000 born.

Non-Correlation:

There is no correlation, which means that income/person (GDP/capita) and population density (per square km) do not affect each other. Bahrain and Canada have close GDPs of 40,550 and 40,770 (PPP$ inflation adjusted) but extremely different population densities of 1,818 and 3.4.

Other factors such as size, geographical condition, and possible weather extremity of a country are the one that are correlated to its population density. Bahrain has a size of 765.3 km2 while Canada has 9.985 million km2.

Reference:

"Wealth and Health of Nations." Gapminder World. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.

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