Talking about things in terms of GDP glosses over the human suffering that it represents. > a 10% increase in per capita real income is associated with a 1.5%

Talking about things in terms of GDP glosses over the human suffering that it represents. > a 10% increase in per capita real income is associated with a 1.5% decrease in the crude death rate It seems reasonable to assume that the inverse is also true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate#Economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate#Economics https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-...