Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  James, Spencer L ^a   Gubbins, Paul ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariate; GDP; GDP per capita; Income; Indicator; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; INCOME; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864363730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-12     Document Type: Article

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