INDIA’S GDP AND DEATH RATE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INDIAN ECONOMY

Abstract

Death rate in India being problematic from past many years, which is affected by many factors prevailing in the country, the study attempts to find out the effects of economic growth on the death rate of the country. GDP is considered as an indicator of the economic growth of the country for the study. The data regarding GDP and death rate have been collected from the secondary sources like WORLDOMETER and WORLDBANK database. The correlation and regression analysis have been used to find out the nature and the degree of effect of economic growth on death rate of the country. A strong negative correlation has been reported between the GDP growth rate and the death rate of the country. Also it was found that GDP accounts for the 46% of cause of change in the death rate of the country between the period of 2011 to 2019.