Impact of Urbanization on Life Expectancy in South Asian Countries

Abstract

Life expectancy is globally considered a vital health indicator and a significant weight of human development which is in fact, the key metric for the assessment of population health. Urbanization has got a longer impact on it. Life expectancy is seen higher if a nation is more urbanized. Nations with highest life expectancy are categorically urbanized whereas most of the nations with the lowest life  expectancy are predominantly rural. The sole purpose of this study is to find out the effect of urbanization on life expectancy in five  south Asian countries. Applying redundant Fixed Effect Model the study has identified that the fixed effect model is better than Pooled  Model. Furthermore utilizing Hausman test the study also indicates that it’s better to use FEM rather than REM one for five south Asian  countries during the time 1969 to 2017. If urbanization increases by 1%, life expectancy increases by about 0.36% in the selected  south Asian countries.