Pritchett and Summers argue that income per capita is strongly and positively related to health status when viewed across the world. From data in Table 2.2, in Chapter 2 of this text, plot a graph of GDP per capita against life expectancy for the countries shown. Does your plot confi rm the Pritchett and Summers fi nding?

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Table 2.2 There Is a Strikingly Diverse Experience in Income, Health, and Health Care across the World's Cultures Country GDP per capita (in $) 2014 Health expenditures per person (in $) 2013 Life expectancy at birth (years) total 2013 Tuberculosis incidence Infant mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 people 2014 per 1,000 live births) 2015 Afghanistan 634 55 60 189 66 Albania 4,564 240 78 19 13 Bangladesh 1,087 32 71 227 31 Brazil 11,384 1,085 74 44 15 China 7,590 367 75 68 9 Ethiopia 574 25 63 207 41 Germany 47,822 5,006 81 6 India 1,582 61 68 167 Nigeria 3,203 115 52 322 69 Norway 64,976 6,204 81 8 Russian Fed. 12,376 United States 54,630 957 9,146 71 79 84 3 Source: Table constructed from World Health Organization data archive Global Health Observatory Data Repository. Accessed through http://apps.who.int/gho/ data, January 14, 2016. 32 200 60 38 8